Stephen Vincent Benét: John Brown's body and the meaning of the Civil War
Macleish's Conquistador: history as metaphor
A usable past: Robert Penn Warren's Brother to dragons
T.S. Eliot: awaking from the nightmare of history
The varieties of history in Hart Crane's The bridge
Carolyn Forché: history and theophany
Ezra Pound and the problem of history
Getting the news from poems: William Carlos Williams's In the American grain and Paterson
Charles Olson's Maximus: looking for oneself
Looking for the evidence.