Recent themes in historical thinking: historians in conversation

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Historical inquiry and thinking today / Donald A. Yerxa -- Are we asking too much of history? / Allan Megill -- What is history now? : an interview with David Cannadine / Donald A. Yerxa -- On the current state of history : an interview with Richard J. Evans / Donald A. Yerxa -- Collective memory, history education, and historical consciousness / Peter Seixas -- Historical thinking is unnatural .. and immensely important : an interview with Sam Wineburg / Joseph S. Lucas -- Popular and professional history / John Lukacs -- The public use of history / Jeremy Black -- Postmodernism and the truth of history / C. Behan McCullagh -- Postmodernism and historical inquiry : spoiled for choice? / Beverley Southgate -- Postmodernism and historiography / Willie Thompson -- Telling it like it wasn't / Richard J. Evans -- Is the dark light enough? / Edward Ingram -- Good history needs counterfactuals / Richard Ned Lebow -- Counterfactuals and the historical imagination / William H. McNeill --The new counterfactualists / Allan Megill -- Alternate history and memory / Gavriel Rosenfeld -- Counterfactualism defended / Jeremy Black -- When do counterfactuals work? / Robert Cowley -- Response / Richard J. Evans.