Do history and historical archaeology matter?
Section 1: What are our ambitions? The goals of historical archaeology
Preserving and interpreting sites
Rewriting documentary history
Reconstructing ways of life
Improving archaeological methods
Understanding modernization and globalization
Section 2: What do we care about? A questioning attitude
Colonialism, capitalism, and slavery
Ideology, ambiguity, and muted groups
Section 3: A windshield survey of historical archaeology. Introduction to a windshield survey of historical archaeology
The survival of the English colony at Jamestown
Mission San Luis de Talimali
Enclosure of the English countryside
Capitalism, the Georgian order, and a woman
The machine in the garden
The inner-city working class
Garbage and garbage-in-waiting
Section 4: Historical archaeology as public scholarship. Introduction to public archaeology
Public memory and public places
What about the painful past?
History and the culture wars
Civic renewal and restorative justice
