 |  After the Fact: The Art of Historical Detection, 5/e James West Davidson,
Historian
Mark H. Lytle,
Bard College
Table of Contents
Prologue: The Strange Death of Silas Deane: The Problem of Selecting Evidence
1. Serving Time in Virginia: The Perspectives of Evidence in Social History
2. The Visible and Invisible Worlds of Salem: Studying Crisis at the Community Level
3. Declaring Independence: The Strategies of Documentary Analysis
4. Jackson’s Frontier, and Turner’s: History and Grand Theory
5. The Invisible Pioneers: Ecological Transformations along the Western Frontier
6. Quilting in the 1840s and 1850s: Exploring Material Culture
7. The Madness of John Brown: The Uses of Psychohistory
8. The View from the Bottom Rail: Oral History and the Freedpeople
9. The Mirror with a Memory: Photographic Evidence and the Urban Scene
10. USDA Government Inspected: The Jungle of Political History
11. Sacco and Vanzetti: The Case of History versus Law
12. Dust Bowl Odyssey: The Collective History of a Migration
13. The Decision to Drop the Bomb: The Uses of Models in History
14. From Rosie to Lucy: The Mass Media and Images of Women in the 1950s
15. Breaking into Watergate: Plumbing a Presidency through Audio Tapes
16. Where Trouble Comes: History and Myth in the Films of Vietnam
17. Contemporary Body Image and Gender: Our Obsession with Thin Women and Buff Men
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