Davidson, James West.
After the fact : the art of historical detection / James West Davidson, Mark Hamilton Lytle. - 1st ed. - New York : Knopf, c1982. - xxxii, 388, xii p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
The strange death of Silas Deane : the problem of selecting evidence -- Serving time in Virginia : the perspectives of evidence in social history -- The visible and invisible worlds of Salem : studying crisis at the community level -- Declaring independence : the strategies of documentary analysis -- Jackson's frontier-and Turner's : history and grand theory -- The 'noble savage' and the artist's canvas : interpreting pictorial evidence -- The madness of John Brown : the uses of psychohistory -- The view from the bottom rail : oral history and the freedmen's point of view -- The mirror with a memory : photographic evidence and the urban scene -- USDA government inspected : the jungle of political history -- Sacco and Vanzetti : the case of history versus law -- Huey Generis : the Louisiana kingfish and 'great-man' history -- The decision to drop the bomb : the use of models in history -- Instant Watergate : footnoting The final days.
Under the historians eye, the puzzles of the past turn and reveal themselves. Here are good stories well told, displaying the essential fascination of scholarship in action and what it can accomplish.
0394523229 9780394523224 0394329651 (college ed.) 9780394329659 (college ed.)
81013737
United States--Historiography.
United States--History.
E175 / .D38 1985
973/.072
After the fact : the art of historical detection / James West Davidson, Mark Hamilton Lytle. - 1st ed. - New York : Knopf, c1982. - xxxii, 388, xii p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
The strange death of Silas Deane : the problem of selecting evidence -- Serving time in Virginia : the perspectives of evidence in social history -- The visible and invisible worlds of Salem : studying crisis at the community level -- Declaring independence : the strategies of documentary analysis -- Jackson's frontier-and Turner's : history and grand theory -- The 'noble savage' and the artist's canvas : interpreting pictorial evidence -- The madness of John Brown : the uses of psychohistory -- The view from the bottom rail : oral history and the freedmen's point of view -- The mirror with a memory : photographic evidence and the urban scene -- USDA government inspected : the jungle of political history -- Sacco and Vanzetti : the case of history versus law -- Huey Generis : the Louisiana kingfish and 'great-man' history -- The decision to drop the bomb : the use of models in history -- Instant Watergate : footnoting The final days.
Under the historians eye, the puzzles of the past turn and reveal themselves. Here are good stories well told, displaying the essential fascination of scholarship in action and what it can accomplish.
0394523229 9780394523224 0394329651 (college ed.) 9780394329659 (college ed.)
81013737
United States--Historiography.
United States--History.
E175 / .D38 1985
973/.072