FROM THE EDITOR
Debating Who "We" Are
Kevin B. Byrne
FOREWORD
Still Searching for America: Conversations on National Identity
Geoffrey Scheurman
A "Canon" for American Identity
Geoffrey Scheurman
ARTICLES
Freedom: America’s Evolving and Enduring Idea
Eric Foner
Choosing Five Americans Who Got it Right, or History for Young Minds
Joy Hakim
Who Makes History? A Response to Joy Hakim's Heroes
Kurt E. Leichtle
Cultural Pluralism and American Identity: A Response to Foner’s Freedom and Hakim’s Heroes
José E. Vega
The Paradox of the Democratic Mind: Value Tensions and Argument
H. Michael Hartoonian and Richard Van Scotter
TEACHING RESOURCES
America as Metaphor: Using Argument to Teach about American Identity
Geoffrey Scheurman
Pictures that Changed Our Minds: Writing the History of the Sixties from Images
Mark Hamilton Lytle
U.S. at War: Our Reasons, Our Motives, Our Mission
Keith Reynolds
The Russo-American Primer: Shaping Cultural Identity
Marion Menzin
INTERNET RESOURCES
U.S. History and American Identity
TEACHING AMERICAN HISTORY WITH DOCUMENTS FROM THE GILDER LEHRMAN COLLECTION
"We, the People of the United States": The Birth of an American Identity, September 1787
Carol Berkin
AMERICA ON THE WORLD STAGE
Globalizing Popular Culture in the "American Century" and Beyond
Penny M. Von Eschen
