The historian and the climate of opinion

Part one: Historians of the earlier 1900s : Written history as an act of faith / Charles Beard (1934)

The rise of American civilization / Charles and Mary Beard (1927)

Main currents in American thought / Vernon Louis Parrington (1927)

Commentary on progressive histories / Charles Crowe (1966)

Part two: Historians since World War II : The liberal tradition in America / Louis Hartz (1955)

The genius of American politics / Daniel Boorstin (1953)

The age of reform / Richard Hofstadter (1955)

Commentary on "Consensus and Continuity" in post-war historical interpretations / J. Rogers Hollingsworth (1962)

Part three: A dissenting neo-progressivism in the 1960s: the new left historians : The historian as participant / Staughton Lynd (1967)

Populism, authoritarianism, and the historian / Norman Pollack (1965)

Commentary on the new left / Irwin Unger (1967)

Part four: The historian and the climate of opinion: an obstacle or an opportunity? : The attempt to write a more scientific history / Allan Bogue (1967)

A critique of the scientific hope / Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. (1962)

The historian as moral critic / John Higham (1962)