After the Fact: The Art of Historical Detection

by Davidson, James West; Lytle, Mark H.

• ISBN13: 9780073385488
• ISBN10: 0073385484
• eBook ISBN(s): 9780077413460
• Additional ISBN(s): 9780072294262, 9780072818529
• Edition: 6th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-09-22
• Publisher: 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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