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| Preface | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Emergence of Greek Historiography | |
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| The Timeless Past of Gods and Heroes Discovering a Past of Human Dimensions | |
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| The Era of the Polis and Its Historians | |
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| The New History of the Polis The Decline of the Polis: The Loss of Focus | |
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| Reaching the Limits of Greek Historiography | |
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| The History of a Special Decade Hellenistic Historiography: Beyond the Confines of the Polis The Problem of New Regions and People | |
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| Early Roman Historiography Myths, Greeks, and the Republic An Early Past Dimly Perceived | |
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| The Roman Past and Greek Learning Greco-Roman History Writing: Triumph and a Latin Response | |
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| Historians and the Republic's Crisis History as Inspiration and Structural Analysis History Divorced from Rome's Fate | |
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| Perceptions of the Past in Augustan and Imperial Rome History Writing in the "New Rome" of Augustus Historians and the Empire | |
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| The Christian Historiographical Revolution | |
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| The Formulation of Early Christian Historiography | |
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| The Problem of Continuity in an Age of Upheaval | |
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| The Carolingian and Anglo-Saxon Consolidation in Historiography | |
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| The Historiographical Mastery of New Peoples, States, and Dynasties Integrating Peoples into Latin Historiography Legitimizing New States and Dynasties | |
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| Historians and the Ideal of the Christian Commonwealth | |
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| The Last Synthesis of Empire and Christianity | |
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| The Persistence of Christian Themes Histories of a Grand and Holy Venture: The Crusades | |
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| Historiography's Adjustment to Accelerating Change | |
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| The Search for Developmental Patterns Transformations of the Chronicle | |
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| Two Turning Points | |
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| The Renaissance and The Reformation | |
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| The Italian Renaissance Historians Humanist Revisionism Outside of Italy | |
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| The Collapse of Spiritual Unity | |
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| The Continuing Modification of Traditional Historiography | |
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| The Blending of Theoretical and Patriotic Answers Universal History: A Troubled Tradition Historians, the New Politics, and New Perceptions of the World | |
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| The Origin and Early Forms of American History | |
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| The Eighteenth-Century Quest for a New Historiography | |
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| The Reassessment of Historical Order and Truth New Views on Historical Truth New Grand Interpretations: Progress in History New Grand Interpretations: The Cyclical Pattern | |
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| The National Responses | |
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| The British Blend of Erudition, Elegance, and Empiricism Enlightenment Historiography in a Germany Key Recording the Birth of the American Nation | |
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| Historians as Interpreters of Progress and Nation—I German Historians: The Causes of Truth and National Unity France: Historians, the Nation, and Liberty | |
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| Historians as Interpreters of Progress and Nation—II English Historiography in the Age of Revolution Historians and the Building of the American Nation Historiography's "Golden Age" | |
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| A First Prefatory Note to Modern Historiography (1860-1914) | |
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| History and the Quest for a Uniform Science Comte's Call to Arms and the Response The German and English Responses to Positivist Challenges The Peculiar American Synthesis | |
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| The Discovery of Economic Dynamics An Economic Perspective on the Past Karl Marx: Paneconomic History Economic History after Marx | |
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| Historians Encounter the Masses Jubilant and Dark Visions Social History as Institutional History | |
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| The American "New History": Call for a Democratic History | |
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| The Problem of World History | |
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| A Second Prefatory Note to Modern Historiography (since 1914) | |
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| Questions of Historical Truth—The Theoretical Discussion The New Positivism and the Theory of History Autonomous History and Its Theories | |
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| Two Recent Endeavors in "Scientific" History History in the Language of Numbers Psychohistory: A Promise and Many Problems | |
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| The Fading of the Paneconomic Model Marxist Historiography: Ultimate Meaning or Another Method? Reshaping Economic History | |
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| American and French Interpretations of Social History American Progressive History The Annales School | |
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| Redefinitions of Two National Historiographies The Transformation | |