After the Fact: The Art of Historical Detection, Volume II
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
| Preface | p. ix |
| Introduction | p. xi |
| Prologue: The Strange Death of Silas Deane | p. xvii |
| The View from the Bottom Rail | p. 171 |
| Past And Present: Whose Oral History? | p. 201 |
| The Mirror with a Memory | p. 203 |
| Past And Present: Why Can't I See Them Now? | p. 227 |
| USDA Government Inspected | p. 229 |
| Sacco and Vanzetti | p. 256 |
| Past And Present: The Mending Wall? | p. 282 |
| DusrBowl Odyssey | p. 284 |
| p. The Decision | |
| Past And Present: Truckstop Atomic Science | p. 337 |
| From Rosie to Lucy | p. 339 |
| Sitting-In | p. 366 |
| Breaking into Watergate | p. 396 |
| Where Trouble Comes | p. 420 |
| Credits | p. 449 |
| Index | p. 451 |
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