Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Allan Nevins — An Appreciation VII
3. Contents XI
4. Scientific History in America: Eclipse of an Idea 1
5. Thoughts on the Confederacy 20
6. Radical Reconstruction 37
7. The New South 50
8. American Historians and National Politics from the Civil War to the First World War 81
9. Reflections on Urban History and Urban Reform, 1865-1915 109
10. The Idea of the Robber Barons in American History 138
11. Some Aspects of European Migration to the United States 153
12. The Evolution Controversy 169
13. Pragmatism in America 193
14. Populism: Its Significance in American History 217
15. Imperialism and Racism 231
16. The Muckrakers: in Flower and in Failure 251
17. Cycle of Revisionism between Two Wars 271
18. An Interpretation of Franklin D. Roosevelt 287
19. Index of Names 311