From the Book - First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Overture: The monk outside the monastery
The dawning of history: Herodotus or Thucydides?
The glory that was Rome: from Polybius to Suetonius
History and myth: creating the Bible
Closing down the past: the Muslim view of history
The Medieval chroniclers: creating a nation's story
The accidental historian: Niccolò Machiavelli
William Shakespeare: the drama of history
Zozo and the marionette infidel: M. Voltaire and Mr. Gibbon
Announcing a discipline: from Macaulay to von Ranke
Once upon a time: novelists as past masters
America against itself: versions of the Civil War
Of shoes and ships and sealing wax: the annales school
The red historians: from Karl Marx to Eric Hobsbawm
History from the inside: From Julius Caesar to Ulysses S. Grant
The spinning of history: Churchill and his factory
Mighty opposites: wars inside the academy
The wounded historian: John Keegan and the military mind
Herstory: from Bān Zhāo to Mary Beard
Who tells our story? From George W. Williams to Ibram X. Kendi
Bad history: truth-telling vs. "patriotism"
The first draft: journalists and the recent past
On television: from A.J.P. Taylor to Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
