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008			810813s1982 nyua b 001 0 eng
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020			_a9780394523224
020			_a0394329651 (college ed.)
020			_a9780394329659 (college ed.)
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050	0	0	_aE175 _b.D38 1985
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100	1		_aDavidson, James West. _91052
245	1	0	_aAfter the fact : _bthe art of historical detection / _cJames West Davidson, Mark Hamilton Lytle.
250			_a1st ed.
260			_aNew York : _bKnopf, _cc1982.
300			_axxxii, 388, xii p. : _bill. ; _c23 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographies and index.
505	0		_aThe 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.
520			_aUnder 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.
651		0	_aUnited States _xHistoriography. _91053
651		0	_aUnited States _xHistory. _9983
700	1		_aLytle, Mark H. _91054
776	0	8	_iOnline version: _aDavidson, James West. _tAfter the fact. _b1st ed. _dNew York : Knopf, c1982 _w(OCoLC)644813379
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