Who owns history?: rethinking the past in a changing world

Preface

Part I : Politics of history and historians

My life as a historian ; Education of Richard Hofstadter

Part II : Rethinking history in a changing world

American freedom in a global age ; Russians write a new history ; We must forget the past : history in the new South Africa ; Why is there no socialism in the United States?

Part III : Enduring civil war

Who is an American? ; Blacks and the U.S. Constitution ; Ken Burns and the romance of reunion.