History comes alive: public history and popular culture in the 1970s

Introduction : The historical, transformed

Past as present : history on television from the 1950s to the 1970s

The commemoration revolution : planning the federal bicentennial

Preservation is people : saving and collecting as democratic practice

The spaces of history : museums, interactivity, and immersion

Cultural logics of reenactment : embodied engagements with the American past

History comes alive : activism, identification, and the American archive

Conclusion : Making history.