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After the fact : the art of historical detection /

by Davidson, James West; Lytle, Mark H.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: New York : Knopf, c1982Edition: 1st ed.Description: xxxii, 388, xii p. : ill. ; 23 cm.ISBN: 0394523229; 9780394523224; 0394329651 (college ed.); 9780394329659 (college ed.).Subject(s): United States -- Historiography | United States -- History
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

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.

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