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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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