The usefulness of a story or narrative is that it not only makes sense out of the past, but also serves as a framework for moving into the future. The Enlightenment story of the four stages of history performed these functions quite well until recently, at least for the storytellers. As long as this story is not questioned, it appears as the one true story. Today, however, we live in a pluralistic society where there are multiple stories and multiple perspectives of the world. I continually observe some of these differences in my classes when I ask students to write a one-page story of the United States. In most classes, some students tell a story of freedom – how the Puritans came to the Americas to enjoy religious freedom. Others tell the war story, which continues to be a popular narrative of the United States. It involves a list of the wars, from the Revolutionary War through the Civil War to World War One and Two and finally to the Vietnam and Iraq wars. Depending on who is in the class, we might also hear the story of the destruction of Native American culture and land, or the story of slavery, or the story of women struggling for equal rights, and so on. What is fascinating is that all these stories are true, and yet the official story seldom has room for all of them.