We propose a roundtable tackling the politics of history of the Reagan administration. Reagan’s is the presidential administration that has most lately been declassifying its records. Though that process is slow and frustrating, it has yielded some new documentation and/or insights from historians working at the Reagan presidential library and elsewhere. Especially given the embrace of Reagan’s memory by the modern conservative movement, it behooves historians to ask whether historians or memory-makers are portraying the president and his administration accurately and why he remains such a potent symbol. Was he as conservative as either liberals or conservatives claim he was? What about his skills as a manager or diplomat? Did he really win the Cold War? How should we remember the Cold War, especially its later stages? How did Reagan fare on economic policymaking? Finally, how should we remember Iran-Contra, the greatest scandal of his presidency? We are a group of historians working on both domestic and international policies, covering topics including labor and economics, conservatism, geopolitics, Cold War memory, and Iran-Contra. Each participant will make a short presentation outlining major bodies of scholarship since the Reagan administration, assessing their highlights and failures, and/or arguing for a new approach. We will speak for no more than ten minutes each and let the audience ask questions for the final 30 minutes.