The Historical Present: Uses and Abuses of the Past

Table of contents

• Title Page iii
• Contents vii
• Acknowledgments ix
• Introduction xi
• Presidents And Other Americans 1
• The Crimes Of Christopher Columbus 3
• Thomas Jefferson As Secular Saint 11
• In the Shadow of Lincoln 19
• Who Was Thaddeus Stevens? 27
• The "How's the President Doing" Question 34
• Martin Luther King's Moment 50
• Constitutional Divinations 57
• The Constitution After Two Centuries 59
• A Good Word for the Framers 69
• The Mysteries of "Original Intent" 76
• Nationalism at The End of an Era 85
• Historians and The Enola Gay Exhibit 87
• Hitler and the Historians 97
• Micronations and The Force of Nationalism 106
• Yalta in History and Myth 113
• New Thoughts About An Old Villain 119
• George F. Kennan and The Follies of History 125
• Skeletons in The National Closet 131
• Games Historians Play 135
• Docudrama, Film and The Limits of Fabrication 137
• Barbara Tuchman and The Horseshoe Nails of History 151
• The Estrangement Of Martin Luther 158
• Church and State in Oxford 165
• Faulkner, History and The Black Family 173
• American Cities: the History Of a Reputation 177
• Epilogue: An Early Confederate History - For Dorothy Warten Candleer 185
• Select Bibliography 195
• Index 199

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