Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xi
4. PART ONE. HISTORY AS A WAY OF LEARNING AND KNOWING
5. Chapter 1. Historical Knowledge and Understanding 3
6. PART TWO. PATTERNS OF MEANING IN THE HISTORIAN’S CRAFT
7. Chapter 2. On Knowing the Past 67
8. Chapter 3. Vanitas and the Historian’s Vocation 71
9. Chapter 4. Clio and the Changing Fashions: Some Patterns in Current American Historiography 104
10. Chapter 5. Extending the Reach of American Cultural History: A Retrospective Glance and a Prospectus 118
11. Chapter 6. Challenges and Opportunities in Writing State and Local History 154
12. PART THREE. THE QUEST FOR MEANING IN AMERICAN CULTURE
13. Chapter 7. History Isn’t What It Once Was 177
14. Chapter 8. Changing Perceptions of the Life Cycle in American Thought and Culture 180
15. Chapter 9. Moses Coit Tyler: The First Professor of American History in the United States 222
16. Chapter 10. “This, Here, and Soon”: Johan Huizinga’s Esquisse of American Culture 252
17. Chapter 11. Uses and Abuses of the Past: A Bifocal Perspective 282
18. Chapter 12. Heritage, Memory, and Hudson Valley Traditions 304
19. INDEX 323