After the fact : the art of historical detection
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After the fact : the art of historical detection
McGraw-Hill, c2000
4th ed
- v. 1
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Includes bibliographical references and 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 AnalysisCHAPTER 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 Freedpeople
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