After the fact : the art of historical detection
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After the fact : the art of historical detection
(McGraw-Hill higher education)
McGraw-Hill, c2000
4th ed
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Includes index
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Description
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 ONEServing Time in Virginia:The Perspectives of Evidence in Social HistoryCHAPTER TWOThe Visible and Invisible Worlds of Salem:Studying Crisis at the Community LevelCHAPTER THREEDeclaring Independence:The Strategies of Documentary AnalysisCHATPER FOURJackson's Frontier-and Turner's:History and Grand TheoryCHAPTER FIVEThe Invisible Pioneers:Ecological Transformations along the Western FrontierCHAPTER SIXThe Madness of John Brown:The Uses of PsychohistoryCHAPTER SEVENThe View from the Bottom Rail:Oral History and the FreedpeopleCHAPTER EIGHTThe Mirror with a Memory:Photographic Evidence and the Urban SceneCHAPTER NINEUSDA Government Inspected:The Jungle of Political HistoryCHAPTER TENSacco and Vanzetti:The Case of History versus LawCHAPTER ELEVENDust Bowl Odyssey:The Collective History of a MigrationCHAPTER TWELVEThe Decision to Drop the Bomb:The Uses of Models in HistoryCHAPTER THIRTEENFrom Rosie to Lucy:The Mass Media and Images of Women in the 1950sCHAPTER FOURTEENBreaking into Watergate:Plumbing a Presidency through Audio TapesCHAPTER FIFTEENWhere Trouble Comes:History and Myth in the Films of Vietnam
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