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
