EDITORS' INTRODUCTION
Barbara Clark Smith

FEATURE ARTICLES

Moving Beyond Beard: A Symposium
Barbara Clark Smith
Alfred F. Young
Linda K. Kerber
Michael Merrill
Peter Dimock
William Forbath
James Henretta

Comic Visions of the City: New York and the Television Sitcom
David Marc

From the Abolitionists to Gay History: An Interview with Martin Bauml Duberman
Robert Padgug and Jon Wiener

Afro-American Families in the Transition from Slavery to Freedom
Ira Berlin
Steven F. Miller
Leslie S. Rowland

PUBLIC HISTORY

"Set Your Mood to Patriotic": History as Televised Special Event
Susan G. Davis

THE PAST IN PRINT

Ideas, History, and the Crisis in Education
Christopher Clark

From the Millennial to the Everyday: James Scott's Search
for the Essence of Peasant Politics
David Hunt

The New Left as History
Jon Weiner

ADVENTURES IN THE ACADEMIC SKIN TRADE
  Josh Brown

THE ABUSABLE PAST
  R.J. Lambrose

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