Jumping Jim Crow / George B. Tindall -- The making of a historian / Leon F. Litwack -- Reflections of a reconstructed white Southerner / Dan T. Carter -- Reflections on race and gender systems / Darlene Clark Hine -- From eurocentrism to polycentrism / David Levering Lewis -- My life as a historian / Eric Foner -- Autobiography and scholarship / Jacqueline Jones -- Conclusion : the significance of the personal for the professional / Mark D. Naison