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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction: The Need for Historical Epistemology | |
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| Memory | |
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| History with Memory, History without Memory | |
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| Memory versus History | |
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| History and the Present | |
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| Conflicting Attitudes toward the Past History's Legitimate Roles | |
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| History, Memory, Identity | |
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| Identity and the Memory Wave | |
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| Identity, Memory, and Historical Understanding History, Memory, and the Unknown | |
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| Narrative and Knowledge | |
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| Does Narrative Have a Cognitive Value of Its Own? | |
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| The "Crisis" of Narrative | |
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| The Epistemological Limits of Narrative | |
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| Narrative and the Four Tasks of History-Writing Explanation and Description | |
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| Narrative and Braudel's Mediterranean | |
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| The Four Tasks of History-Writing | |
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| Objectivity and Speculation | |
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| Objectivity for Historians | |
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| Objectivity and Commitment | |
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| Defining Objectivity | |
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| A Case Study in Historical Epistemology: What Did the Neighbors Know about Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings? | |
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| A Disputed Case | |
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| Inference to the Best Explanation Thagard's Three Criteria | |
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| A Fourth Criterion | |
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| Inferring the Relationship | |
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| The Case for Our Alternative Account | |
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| Counterfactual History: On Niall Ferguson's Virtual History and Similar Works | |
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| Fragmentation | |
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| Fragmentation and the Future of Historiography: On Peter Novick's That Noble Dream | |
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| "Grand Narrative" and the Discipline of History | |
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| Four Ideal-Typical Attitudes toward the Overall Coherence of History | |
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| Four Postulates Suggested by the Preceding Account | |
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| Coherence and Incoherence in Historical Studies: From the Annales School to the New Cultural History | |
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| The Annales School and the Problem of Coherence | |
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| The Annales School: From Convergence to Multiplicity | |
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| Coherence as a Willed Commitment | |
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| Conclusion: Against Current Fashion | |
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| Notes | |
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| Index | |