After the Fact, Volume I, with Primary Source Investigator CD

by Davidson, James West

• ISBN13: 9780072996104
• ISBN10: 0072996102
• Edition: 5th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-07-30
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages

Summary

For more than twenty-five years,After the Facthas provided a time-tested, innovative approach to guiding 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 like oral evidence, photographs, ecological data, films and television programs, church and town records, census data, and novels. Whether for the introductory survey or for a historical methods course,After the Factis the ideal text for any instructor who wants to introduce his or her students to what it is that historians actually do when studying American history.

Table of Contents

1. Serving Time in Virginia: The Perspectives of Evidence in Social History

2. The Visible and Invisible Worlds of Salem: Studying Crisis at the Community Level

3. Declaring Independence: The Strategies of Documentary Analysis

4. Jacksons Frontier, and Turners: History and Grand Theory

5. The Invisible Pioneers: Ecological Transformations along the Western Frontier

6. Quilting in the 1840s and 1850s: Exploring Material Culture

7. The Madness of John Brown: The Uses of Psychohistory

8. The View from the Bottom Rail: Oral History and the Freedpeople