Description:
After The Fact - The Art of Historical DetectionAuthors: James West Davidson & Mark Hamilton Lytle
ISBN-13: 9780070156098
ISBN-10: 0070156093
Publication Date: 1/1/1992
Third Edition
Publisher: Mcgraw-Hill
Paperback
6.35 x 9.2 inches, 398 pages
This critically acclaimed text uses 15 dramatic episodes in American history to demonstrate the process of historical detective work and reconstruction. The authors use a unique combination of dramatic narrative and historical methods to engage students in the "doing" of history. The authors show how historians uncover raw materials, ask questions, and shape their findings into narrative to create what we read as "history." Students come to appreciate history as a dynamic field and become more involved as critical readers of history. This edition includes a final chapter on the Vietnam experience, and dramatic films as historical evidence.
