Prologue: The Strange Death of Silas Deane
Chapter 2. Serving Time in Virginia
Past And Present: Is Slavery Dead?
Chapter 3. The Visible and Invisible Worlds of Salem
Chapter 4. Declaring Independence
Chapter 5. Material Witness
Past And Present: Inside The Information Revolution
Chapter 6. Jackson's Frontier-and Turner's
Chapter 7. The Madness of John Brown
Chapter 8. The View from the Bottom Rail
Past And Present: Whose Oral History?
Prologue. The strange death of Silas Deane : the problem of selecting evidence
1. Serving time in Virginia : the perspectives of evidence in social history
2. The visible and invisible worlds of Salem : studying crisis at the community level
3. Declaring independence : the strategies of documentary analysis
4. Material witness : hearth and home in the material culture of a market economy
5. Jackson's frontier, and Turner's : history and grand theory
6. The invisible pioneers : ecological transformations along the western frontier
7. The madness of John Brown : the uses of psychohistory
8. The view from the bottom rail : oral history and the freedpeople
9. The mirror with a memory : photographic evidence and the urban scene
10. USDA government inspected : the jungle of political history
11. Sacco and Vanzetti : the case of history versus law
12. Dust Bowl odyssey : the collective history of a migration
13. The decision to drop the bomb : the uses of models in history
14. From Rosie to Lucy : the mass media and images of women in the 1950s
15. Breaking into Watergate : plumbing a presidency through audiotapes
16. Where trouble comes : history and myth in the films of Vietnam
17. The body in question : culture and history in the shaping of gender identities.
