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.
