| Preface | |
| Introduction | 3 |
| Ch. 1 | Exceptionalism | 21 |
| Ch. 2 | Gender | 41 |
| Ch. 3 | Economic History and the Cliometric Revolution | 59 |
| Ch. 4 | The New and Newer Histories: Social Theory and Historiography in an American Key | 85 |
| Ch. 5 | Explaining Racism in American History | 107 |
| Ch. 6 | Crevecoeur's Question: Historical Writing on Immigration, Ethnicity, and National Identity | 120 |
| Ch. 7 | The Relevance and Irrelevance of American Colonial History | 144 |
| Ch. 8 | Nineteenth-Century American History | 164 |
| Ch. 9 | Americans and the Writing of Twentieth-Century United States History | 185 |
| Ch. 10 | Western Civilization | 206 |
| Ch. 11 | American Classical Historiography | 222 |
| Ch. 12 | In the Mirror's Eye The Writing of Medieval History in America | 238 |
| Ch. 13 | The Italian Renaissance, Made in the USA | 263 |
| Ch. 14 | Between Whig Traditions and New Histories: American Historical Writing about Reformation and Early Modern Europe | 295 |
| Ch. 15 | Prescott's Paradigm American Historical Scholarship and the Decline of Spain | 324 |
| Ch. 16 | The American Historiography of the French Revolution | 349 |
| Ch. 17 | Modern Europe in American Historical Writing | 393 |
| Ch. 18 | Clio in Tauris American Historiography on Russia | 415 |
| Ch. 19 | House of Mirrors American History-Writing on Japan | 434 |
| List of Contributors | 455 |
| Index | 459 |
