Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Historical Knowledge, Education, and Public Culture -- Part I. Textbooks, Survey Courses, and Historical Education -- Rethinking American History Textbooks -- Reports of Its Death Were Premature: Why "Western Civ" Endures -- Teaching Western History at Stanford -- Teaching Non-Western History at Stanford -- Teaching High School History Inside and Outside the Historical Canon -- History, Science, and Literature: Integrating Knowledge and Involving Students in American High Schools -- Part II. Rethinking Categories of Historical Meaning -- How We Learn about Race through History -- Gender and Historical Understanding -- Canons, Texts, and Contexts -- Part III. Popular Films and Historical Memory -- The Historical Film: Looking at the Past in a Postliterate Age -- Introduction to "Interventions in the Field of Dreams with Ariel Dorfman" -- Print Edition of "Interventions in the Field of Dreams with Ariel Dorfman" -- Commentary on "Interventions in the Field of Dreams with Ariel Dorfman" -- Part IV. Political Culture and Historical Interpretation -- American Foreign Policy and the Rhetoric of History and Morality -- Reflections on the Crisis in History -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.