Abstract
The historical crisis, by J. T. Marcus.–History and the search for identity, by P. Smith.–The role of history, by J. H. Plumb.–History as progress, by E. H. Carr.–On optimism, by P. Gay.–The purpose of history, by G. R. Elton.–The uses of history, by D. H. Fischer.–The dangers of history, by H. Butterfield.–Unity of history, by P. Smith.–History as private enterprise, by H. Zinn.–The historian and his day, by J. H. Hexter.–Present interest, by S. Kracauer.–On becoming an historian, by M. Duberman.–Vietnam analogy: Greece, not Munich, by A. J. Mayer.–Analogies, by D. H. Fischer.–The tragic element in modern international conflict, by H. Butterfield.