After the Fact: The Art of Historical Detection, Volume I (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780077292683)

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.

Author: James West Davidson, Mark H. Lytle
ISBN-10: 0077292685
ISBN-13: 9780077292683
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
Language: English
Published: 09/01/2009
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.30w x 0.50d