Part I : Politics of history and historians
My life as a historian ; Education of Richard Hofstadter
Part II : Rethinking history in a changing world
American freedom in a global age ; Russians write a new history ; We must forget the past : history in the new South Africa ; Why is there no socialism in the United States?
Part III : Enduring civil war
Who is an American? ; Blacks and the U.S. Constitution ; Ken Burns and the romance of reunion.