James West Davidson

After the Fact, Volume I: the Art of Historical Detection James West Davidson

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Table of Contents: Prologue: The Strange Death of Silas Deane Chapter 1. ContactChapter 2. Serving Time in Virginia Chapter 3. The Visible and Invisible Worlds of SalemChapter 4. Declaring Independence Chapter 5. Material WitnessChapter 6. Jackson's Frontier-and Turner'sChapter 7. The Madness of John BrownChapter 8. The View from the Bottom RailPublisher Marketing: For more than twenty-five years, After the Fact has guided 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 including oral evidence, photographs, ecological data, films and television programs, church and town records, census data, and novels. Whether for an introductory survey or for a historical methods course, After the Fact is the ideal text to introduce readers, step by step, to the detective work and analytical approaches historians use when they are actually doing history. Contributor Bio:  Davidson, James West 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". Contributor Bio:  Lytle, Mark Hamilton Mark Hamilton Lytle is Professor of History and Environmental Studies at Bard College. He is the author of America's Uncivil Wars: The Sixties Era from Elvis to the Fall of Richard Nixon (OUP, 2006) and coauthor of After the Fact: The Art of Historical Detection, Fifth Edition (2005), and Nation ofNations: A Narrative History of the American Republic, Fifth Edition (2004).