The new social history: an overview / Peter N. Stearns --
Race, ethnicity, and cultural pluralism in American history / Howard N. Rabinowitz --
Women's history: gender as a category of historical analysis / Elizabeth H. Pleck --
The new urban history: defining the field / Kathleen Neils Conzen --
Agriculture and rural life: the new rural history / Robert P. Swierenga --
American families in the past / Maris A. Vinovskis --
Workers and work in America: the new labor history / David Brody --
Politics and social history: toward a new synthesis / Samuel P. Hays --
Things unspoken: learning social history from artifacts / Barbara G. Carson and Cary Carson.