After the Fact, with Primary Source Investigator CD: The Art of Historical Detection - Softcover

Davidson,James West; Lytle,Mark

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0072994010 ISBN 13: 9780072994018

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages, 2004

Synopsis

For more than twenty-five years, After the Fact has provided a time-tested, innovative approach to guiding 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 like oral evidence, photographs, ecological data, films and television programs, church and town records, census data, and novels. Whether for the introductory survey or for a historical methods course, After the Fact is the ideal text for any instructor who wants to introduce his or her students to what it is that historians actually do when studying American history.

About this title

About the Author:

James West Davidson received his B.A. from Haverford College and his Ph.D. from Yale University. A historian who has pursued a full-time writing career, he is the author of numerous books, among them After the Fact: The Art of Historical Detection (with Mark H. Lytle), The Logic of Millennial Thought: Eighteenth Century New England, and Great Heart: The History of a Labrador Adventure (with John Rugge). He is co-editor with Michael Stiff of the Oxford New Narratives in American History, in which his most recent book appears: 'They Say': Ida B. Wells and the Reconstruction of Race.

About this edition

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0072994010
• ISBN 13: 9780072994018
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 5
• Number of pages: 487