Contents

Acknowledgements

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

1 Writing the History of the American Revolution

2 Reshaping Society: American Social History from Revolution to Reconstruction

3 Rediscovering Jacksonian America

4 The Evangelical Surge and the Significance of Religion in the Early United States, 1783?1865

5 The New Deal in American Scholarship

6 Beyond the

7 Segregation and Civil Rights: African American Freedom Strategies in the Twentieth Century

8 Industrial History: The State of the Art

9 Intellectual History, Democracy, and the Culture of Irony

10 Women's History and Gender S.

11 Print and the Public Sphere in Early America Robert

12 The Rise of Film History

13 The American West: From Exceptionalism to Internationalism

14 Orpheus Turning: The Present State of Southern History

15 Class and the Construction of

16 Imagining Indians: Differing Perspectives on Native American History

17 Class in American History: Issues and a Case Study

18 Conflict by Consent: Popular Commitment, Community Participation, and the War for the Union

19 By Way of DuBois: The Question of Black Initiative in the Civil War and Reconstruction