After the Fact: The Art of Historical Detection - Softcover

James West Davidson; Mark Hamilton Lytle

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0072294264 ISBN 13: 9780072294262

Publisher: McGraw-Hill, 2000

Synopsis

For more than twenty years, After the Fact has been a popular and best-selling approach to guiding students through American History and the methods used to generate it. In fifteen dramatic episodes that move chronologically through American history, this book examines such topics as oral evidence, photographs, ecological data, films and television programs, church and town records, census data, and novels.

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
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0072294264
• ISBN 13: 9780072294262
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 448