1. History under fire -- 2. What do historians do? -- 3. What do they say? -- 4. The historian under fire : Manning Clark -- 5. The historian betrayed : Geoffrey Blainey -- 6. Bicentenary battles -- 7. Relaxed and comfortable -- 8. Frontier conflict -- 9. What do they teach our children? -- 10. Working through the musuem's labels
Summary
A study of recent endeavours to rewrite or reinterpret the history of European settlement in Australia. Explains how history has polarised the nation