Contents -- Preface -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- I. Intellectuals and Historians -- 1. The Formation of a Public Intellectual, 1902-1932 -- Notes -- 2. Philosophy Teaching by Experience, 1928-1936 -- Notes -- 3. Columbia and New York in the Forties, 1938-1950 -- Notes -- II. Freedom and the American Century -- 4. Protecting Liberalism in World War ii, 1939-1947 -- Notes -- 5. Anticommunism and McCarthyism, 1945-1960 -- Notes -- 6. University, Family, and Race, 1945-1968 -- Notes -- 7. The Call to Political Morality, 1964-1974 -- Notes -- III. The Meaning of the American Past -- 8. The Character and Myth of Historians at Midcentury, 1937-1997 -- Notes -- 9. Liberals and the Historical Past, 1948-1997 -- Notes -- 10. Legacies, 1971-1997 -- Notes -- Notes -- Abbreviations used in the Notes -- Index.