John Higham is professor emeritus of history at the Johns Hopkins University. He is author of Send These to Me: Immigrants in Urban America and co-editor of Ethnic Leadership in America.

• PrefacePart I. The Historical Profession1. Formative Years2. Growth Since 19073. Distribution and Recruitment of Talene4. The Historian and His AudiencePart II. Theory1. Scientific History: The American Orthodoxy2. The New History3. Relativism4. The Renewal of HistoryPart III. American History1. The Conservation Evolutionist as Amateur2. The Conservation Evolutionist as Professor3. The Ascendncy of Progressive History6. A Search for StabilityPart IV. Legacy1. A Time of Troubles2. Postscript: Objectivity ReexaminedIndex