After the Fact: The Art of Historical Detection
by Davidson, James West; Lytle, Mark H.Edition: 6th
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2009-09-22
Publisher(s): McGraw Hill
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Summary
For more than twenty-five years,After the Facthas guided students through American history and the methods used to study it. In dramatic episodes that move chronologically through American history, this best-selling book examines a broad variety of topics including oral evidence, photographs, ecological data, films and television programs, church and town records, census data, and novels. Whether for an introductory survey or for a historical methods course, After the Fact is the ideal text to introduce readers, step by step, to the detective work and analytical approaches historians use when they are actually doing history..
Table of Contents
| Preliminary Toc Prologue: The Strange Death of Silas Deane: The Problem of Selecting Evidence | |
| Contact | |
| Serving Time in Virginia: The Perspectives of Evidence in Social History | |
| The Visible and Invisible Worlds of Salem: Studying Crisis at the Community Level | |
| Declaring Independence: The Strategies of Documentary Analysis | |
| Material Witness: Hearth and Home in the Material Culture of a Market Economy | |
| Jackson's Frontier-and Turners: History and Grand Theory | |
| The Madness of John Brown: The Uses of Psychohistory | |
| The View from the Bottom Rail: Oral History and the Freedpeople | |
| The Mirror with a Memory: Photographic Evidence and the Urban Scene | |
| USDA Government Inspected: The Jungle of Political History | |
| Sacco and Vanzetti: The Case of History versus Law | |
| Dust Bowl Odyssey: The Collective History of a Migration | |
| The Decision to Drop the Bomb: The Uses of Models in History | |
| From Rosie to Lucy: The Mass Media and Images of Women in the 1950s | |
| Sitting In | |
| Breaking Into WaterGate | |
| Where Trouble Comes: History and Myth in the Films of Vietnam | |
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