Evidence Explained, 4th Edition

EE4 Description

Evidence Explained guides users through a maze of historical resources not covered by other citation manuals—all kinds of primary-source materials accessed through all kinds of media. More than a thousand examples for U.S. and international documents demonstrate how to handle the quirks that stump users of these materials. Students, scholars, and curious sleuths all face the same questions:

• What details must we capture for each type of source in order to understand it and properly interpret its evidence?
• How do we evaluate a record’s credibility—especially when its information conflicts with other sources?
• How do we identify each source—not just so it can be found again but so we and others can judge its reliability?
• How can we guard against link rot and disappearing sources when doing online research?

Evidence Explained, a Library Journal Best Reference, has answered these questions since 2007. New to the 4th Edition:

• New tutorial: “Building Your Citation” (Chapter 3)
• 14 universal templates for citing every kind of source
• 1000+ citation examples each keyed to a specific template
• Expanded emphasis on digitized primary sources
• Expanded international coverage
• Updated discussions and examples for every type of source and all digital delivery mechanisms

Elizabeth Shown Mills Elizabeth Shown Mills profile image About the author Elizabeth Shown Mills is an internationally acclaimed historical researcher and writer who has spent her life studying American culture and the relationships between people--emotional as well as genetic. Featured on BBC, CNN, PBS, and other networks in the U.S., U.K., and Australia, she has guest-blogged for the NEW YORK TIMES and has been widely cited as "the genealogist who has had the most influence in the post-Roots era." Her 13 prize-winning books range from reference works such as "Evidence Explained: Citing History Sources from Artifacts to Cyberspace" (Library Journal 2007 Best Reference) to the historical novel, "Isle of Canes," which chronicles a family of freed slaves across four generations, and is drawn from Mills's own research in the archives of six nations. Her latest work is the greatly enlarged, revised edition of the Louisiana State University Press classic, THE FORGOTTEN PEOPLE: CANE RIVER'S CREOLES OF COLOR.