Introduction: "the past we choose to remember"
Narrative history: Samuel Goodrich and truth in children's history
Pedagogical history: the Abbott brothers and Progressive approaches to the past
Gendered history: Josephine Pollard and monosyllabic histories
Providential history: Charles Carleton Coffin and the home study movement
Biographical history: Elbridge S. Brooks and the childhood lives of great men
Doctrinal history: Charles Morris and the search for "lost history"
Conclusion: the recycled past.