The Past before us: contemporary historical writing in the United States

Foreword / John Hope Franklin Introduction : the historian's vocation and the state of the discipline in the United States / Michael Kammen Fragmentation and unity in "American medievalism" / Karl F. Morrison Early modern Europe / William J. Bouwsma Modern European history / William H. McNeill African history / Philip D. Curtin The history of the Muslim middle east / Nikki R. Keddie East, southeast, and south Asia / John Whitney Hall Latin America and the Americas / Charles Gibson Toward a wider vision: trends in social history / Peter N. Stearns The new political history in the 1970s / Allan G. Bogue Labor history in the 1970s: toward a history of the American worker / David Brody Community studies, urban history, and American local history / Kathleen Neils Conzen The negro in American history: as scholar, as subject / Jay Saunders Redding Women and the family / Carl N. Degler

Intellectual and cultural history / Robert Darnton

Marking time: the historiography of international relations / Charles S. Maier

Oral history in the United States / Herbert T. Hoover

Psychohistory / Peter Loewenberg

Quantitative social-scientific history / J. Morgan Kousser

Comparative history / George M. Fredrickson

The teaching of history / Hazel Whitman Hertzberg.