Historian in chief: how presidents interpret the past to shape the future

George Washington: his own historian / Edward Countryman

Slavery, voice, and loyalty: John Quincy Adams as the first revisionist / David Waldstreicher

Martin Van Buren, the democratic party, and the Jacksonian reinvention of the constitution / Elvin T. Lim

Abraham Lincoln goes to the archives: slavery, the Cooper Union Address, and the election of 1860 / Jonathan Earle

Theodore Roosevelt's historical consciousness and Lincoln's generous nationalism / Kathleen Dalton

A scholar and his ghosts: Woodrow Wilson as historian in the White House / John Milton Cooper Jr.

The ordeal of Paris: Herbert Hoover, Woodrow Wilson, and the search for peace / Charlie Laderman

Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the problem of historical time / David Sehat

Profiles in triangulation: John F. Kennedy's neoliberal history of American politics / Jeffrey L. Pasley

Ronald Reagan's allegories of history / Rick Perlstein

Barack Obama's use of American history / James T. Kloppenberg.