After the Fact: The Art of Historical Detection - Softcover

Davidson, James West; Lytle, Mark Hamilton

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0070156107 ISBN 13: 9780070156104

Publisher: Mcgraw-Hill College, 1992

Synopsis

Volume 1 of a 2-volume work that uses 15 dramatic episodes in American history to show students how historians go about the business of interpreting the past. It discusses historical methods within the context of an historical narrative so that students may learn about American history at the same time as seeing how historians use a variety of evidence (diaries, letters, photographs and records) and methods to explain the past.

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 and full-time writer, he is author of The Logic of Millennial Thought: Eighteenth Century New England, Great Heart: the History of a Labrador Adventure (with John Rugge), and other books. Mark H.Lytle received his PhD from Yale University and is Professor of History and Environmental Studies as well as Chair of the American Studies Program at Bard College. He is also Director of the Master of Arts in Teaching Program at Bard. His publications include The Origins of the Iranian-American Alliance, 1941-1953, After the Fact: The Art of Historical Detection (with James West Davidson) and, most recently, "An Environmental Approach to American Diplomatic History" in Diplomatic History. He is at work on The Uncivil War: America in the Vietnam Era.

About this edition

• Publisher: Mcgraw-Hill College
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0070156107
• ISBN 13: 9780070156104
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 184