Brings together some of the most important essays which produced this revolution in the theory of history and also the responses it provoked. Material has been selected both for its philosophical depth and for the clear and accessible manner in which particular arguments are developed using real historical examples and practices in the discipline. Table of Contents Narrativity. The historical text as literary artifact / Hayden White Interpretation, history, and narrative / Noël Carroll Writing and reading history. The rhetoric of history / J. H. Hexter Making up lost time : writing on the writing of history / Nancy F. Partner History, language, and reading : waiting for Crillon / Dominick LaCapra Realism, constructivism, and beyond. History and fiction as modes of comprehension / Louis Mink Narrative and the real world : an argument for continuity / David Carr Telling it like it was : historical narratives on their own terms / Andrew P. Norman Postmodernism and the theory of history. Historiography and postmodernism / F. R. Ankersmit Historiography and postmodernism : reconsiderations / Perez Zagorin Reply to Professor Zagorin / F. R. Ankersmit Representation and trauma. "Never again" is now / Hans Kellner Is it possible to misrepresent the Holocaust? / Berel Lang Gender, sexuality, sex. Is there a history of sexuality? / David M. Halperin No sex, no gender / Nancy F. Partner Objectivity. Objectivity is not neutrality : rhetoric versus practice in Peter Novick's That noble dream / Thomas Haskell Objectivity and truth in history / J. L. Gorman Historical knowledge and historical reality : a plea for "internal realism" / Chris Lorenz Progress in historical studies / Raymond Martin.