After the Fact: The Art of Historical Detection
For more than twenty-five years, After the Fact has 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...
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For more than twenty-five years, After the Fact has 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.
Prologue: The Strange Death of Silas DeaneCh. 1 Contact 1Ch. 2 Serving Time in Virginia 31Past and Present: Is Slavery Dead? 51Ch. 3 The Visible and Invisible Worlds of Salem 52Ch. 4 Declaring Independence 75Ch. 5 Material Witness 98Past and Present: Inside the Information Revolution 123Ch. 6 Jackson's Frontier - and Turner's 124Ch. 7 The Madness of John Brown 148Ch. 8 The View from the Bottom Rail 171Past and Present: Whose Oral History? 201Ch. 9 The Mirror with a Memory 203Past and Present: Why Can't I See Them Now? 227Ch. 10 USDA Government Inspected 229Ch. 11 Sacco and Vanzetti 256Past and Present: The Mending Wall? 282Ch. 12 Dust Bowl Odyssey 284Ch. 13 The Decision to Drop the Bomb 310Past and Present: Truckstop Atomic Science 337Ch. 14 From Rosie to Lucy 339Ch. 15 Sitting-In 366Ch. 16 Breaking into Watergate 396Ch. 17 Where Trouble Comes 420Credits 449Index 452
