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9780072294279

After the Fact Vol. 1 : The Art of Historical Detection

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  • ISBN13:

    9780072294279

  • ISBN10:

    0072294272

  • Edition: 4th
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1999-10-06
  • Publisher: MCG
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Summary

For more than twenty years, After the Fact has been a popular and best-selling approach to guiding students through American History and the methods used to generate it. In fifteen dramatic episodes that move chronologically through American history, this book examines such topics as oral evidence, photographs, ecological data, films and television programs, church and town records, census data, and novels.

Table of Contents

CHAPTER ONE

Serving Time in Virginia:

The Perspectives of Evidence in Social History

CHAPTER TWO

The Visible and Invisible Worlds of Salem:

Studying Crisis at the Community Level

CHAPTER THREE

Declaring Independence:

The Strategies of Documentary Analysis

CHAPTER FOUR

Jackson’s Frontier—and Turner’s:

History and Grand Theory

CHAPTER FIVE

The Invisible Pioneers:

Ecological Transformations along the Western Frontier

CHAPTER SIX

The Madness of John Brown:

The Uses of Psychohistory

CHAPTER SEVEN

The View from the Bottom Rail:

Oral History and the Freedpeople

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