After the Fact: The Art of Historical Detection, Volume I
6th Edition
0077292685
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9780077292683
© 2010 | Published: September 22, 2009
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…
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Prologue: The Strange Death of Silas Deane Chapter 1. ContactChapter 2. Serving Time in Virginia Chapter 3. The Visible and Invisible Worlds of SalemChapter 4. Declaring Independence Chapter 5. Material WitnessChapter 6. Jackson's Frontier-and Turner'sChapter 7. The Madness of John BrownChapter 8. The View from the Bottom Rail
Chapter 2. Serving Time in Virginia Chapter 3. The Visible and Invisible Worlds of SalemChapter 4. Declaring Independence Chapter 5. Material WitnessChapter 6. Jackson's Frontier-and Turner'sChapter 7. The Madness of John BrownChapter 8. The View from the Bottom Rail
Chapter 4. Declaring Independence Chapter 5. Material WitnessChapter 6. Jackson's Frontier-and Turner'sChapter 7. The Madness of John BrownChapter 8. The View from the Bottom Rail
Chapter 6. Jackson's Frontier-and Turner'sChapter 7. The Madness of John BrownChapter 8. The View from the Bottom Rail
Chapter 8. The View from the Bottom Rail
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.