Imagining etymology (as a type of evidence and a trope of argument) / John S. Nelson -- Poetic history: historical experience, Nietzschean genealogy, and Susan Daitch's L.C. / David W. Price -- "Gigantic shadows of futurity": history and politics in Shelley's Defence of poetry / Jacqueline LeBlanc -- Painting out the past: Jacques-Louis David's attempt to begin history again / Stephen Brown -- The power of "Kulturgeschichte": 100 years in the house that Jacob built: the Italian renaissance / Carole Collier Frick