pt. 1. Memory: History with memory, history without memory -- History, memory, identity -- pt. 2. Narrative and knowledge: Does narrative have a cognitive value of its own? -- Narrative and the four tasks of history-writing -- pt. 3. Objectivity and speculation: Objectivity for historians -- A case study in historical epistemology : What did the neighbors know about Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings? -- Counterfactual history : On Niall Ferguson's virtual history and similar works -- pt. 4. Fragmentation: Fragmentation and the future of historiography : On Peter Novick's That Noble Dream -- "Grand narrative" and the discipline of history -- Coherence and incoherence in historical studies : From the Annales School to the new cultural history.