Appeared originally in the winter and spring 1971 issues of Daedalus.

Includes bibliographical references.

From social history to the history of society, by E.J. Hobsbawm.--Economic history and economic theory, by J. Habakkuk.--Quantitative history, by F. Furet.--Quantitative and cartographical exploitation of French military archives, 1819-1826, by E.L. Ladurie and P. Dumont.--Prosopography, by L. Stone.--Intellectual history: its aims and methods, by F. Gilbert.--The relations between history and the history of science, by T.S. Kuhn.--Education in intellectual and social history, by J.E. Talbott.--The use and abuse of psychology in history, by F.E. Manuel.--Reading, writing, and publishing in eighteenth-century France, by R. Darnton.--Archaeology and history, by M.I. Finley.--Local history, by P. Goubert.--English and United States local history, by L. Stone.--Reflections on the new urban history, by S. Thernstrom.--Is politics still the backbone of history? By J. Le Goff.--Political and diplomatic history, By G.A. Craig.--The history of war, by P. Paret.--The historian as participant, by A. Schlesinger, Jr.--Once upon a time: oral traditions as history in Africa, by J. Vansina.--A brief defense of political and intellectual history, by B.I. Schwartz.