This book review article distills and critiques the essence of the fourteen respective contributions to the 2016-study Where is History Today? New Ways of Representing the Past, under the editorship of Marcel Arbeit and Ian Christie. The piece demonstrates how and why the contributors and editors have produced a highly interesting and searching investigation into the textual and ideological space of ways of delineating, and of expanding, the general sense of forms of history in and for our historical present.