E.H. Carr's What is History?, published in 1961, was a runaway bestseller and the most influential book to examine writing and thinking about history this century. David Cannadine has gathered an all-star cast of contributors, including Alice Kessler-Harris and Paul Cartledge to seek answers to E.H. Carr's classic question for a new generation: what does it mean to study history at the start of the twenty-first century? The contributors pose this question anew for the most important and lively subfields of history writing today, such as 'What is gender history now?' and 'What is social history now?' This volume stands along E.H. Carr's classic, paying tribute to his seminal inquiry while moving the debate into new territory, ensuring its freshness and relevance for a new century of historical study.