
After the Fact: The Art of Historical Detection, 6th Edition
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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.
Prologue: The Strange Death of Silas Deane
Chapter 1. Contact
Chapter 2. Serving Time in Virginia
Chapter 3. The Visible and Invisible Worlds of Salem
Chapter 4. Declaring Independence
Chapter 5. Material Witness
Chapter 6. Jackson's Frontier-and Turner's
Chapter 7. The Madness of John Brown
Chapter 8. The View from the Bottom Rail
Chapter 9. The Mirror with a Memory
Chapter 10. USDA Government Inspected
Chapter 11. Sacco and Vanzetti
Chapter 12. Dust Bowl Odyssey
Chapter 13. The Decision to Drop the Bomb
Chapter 14. From Rosie to Lucy
Chapter 15. Sitting In
Chapter 16. Breaking Into WaterGate
Chapter 17. Where Trouble Comes
Chapter 2. Serving Time in Virginia
Chapter 3. The Visible and Invisible Worlds of Salem
Chapter 4. Declaring Independence
Chapter 5. Material Witness
Chapter 6. Jackson's Frontier-and Turner's
Chapter 7. The Madness of John Brown
Chapter 8. The View from the Bottom Rail
Chapter 9. The Mirror with a Memory
Chapter 10. USDA Government Inspected
Chapter 11. Sacco and Vanzetti
Chapter 12. Dust Bowl Odyssey
Chapter 13. The Decision to Drop the Bomb
Chapter 14. From Rosie to Lucy
Chapter 15. Sitting In
Chapter 16. Breaking Into WaterGate
Chapter 17. Where Trouble Comes
Chapter 4. Declaring Independence
Chapter 5. Material Witness
Chapter 6. Jackson's Frontier-and Turner's
Chapter 7. The Madness of John Brown
Chapter 8. The View from the Bottom Rail
Chapter 9. The Mirror with a Memory
Chapter 10. USDA Government Inspected
Chapter 11. Sacco and Vanzetti
Chapter 12. Dust Bowl Odyssey
Chapter 13. The Decision to Drop the Bomb
Chapter 14. From Rosie to Lucy
Chapter 15. Sitting In
Chapter 16. Breaking Into WaterGate
Chapter 17. Where Trouble Comes
Chapter 6. Jackson's Frontier-and Turner's
Chapter 7. The Madness of John Brown
Chapter 8. The View from the Bottom Rail
Chapter 9. The Mirror with a Memory
Chapter 10. USDA Government Inspected
Chapter 11. Sacco and Vanzetti
Chapter 12. Dust Bowl Odyssey
Chapter 13. The Decision to Drop the Bomb
Chapter 14. From Rosie to Lucy
Chapter 15. Sitting In
Chapter 16. Breaking Into WaterGate
Chapter 17. Where Trouble Comes
Chapter 7. The Madness of John Brown
Chapter 8. The View from the Bottom Rail
Chapter 9. The Mirror with a Memory
Chapter 10. USDA Government Inspected
Chapter 11. Sacco and Vanzetti
Chapter 12. Dust Bowl Odyssey
Chapter 13. The Decision to Drop the Bomb
Chapter 14. From Rosie to Lucy
Chapter 15. Sitting In
Chapter 16. Breaking Into WaterGate
Chapter 17. Where Trouble Comes
Chapter 9. The Mirror with a Memory
Chapter 10. USDA Government Inspected
Chapter 11. Sacco and Vanzetti
Chapter 12. Dust Bowl Odyssey
Chapter 13. The Decision to Drop the Bomb
Chapter 14. From Rosie to Lucy
Chapter 15. Sitting In
Chapter 16. Breaking Into WaterGate
Chapter 17. Where Trouble Comes
Chapter 11. Sacco and Vanzetti
Chapter 12. Dust Bowl Odyssey
Chapter 13. The Decision to Drop the Bomb
Chapter 14. From Rosie to Lucy
Chapter 15. Sitting In
Chapter 16. Breaking Into WaterGate
Chapter 17. Where Trouble Comes
Chapter 13. The Decision to Drop the Bomb
Chapter 14. From Rosie to Lucy
Chapter 15. Sitting In
Chapter 16. Breaking Into WaterGate
Chapter 17. Where Trouble Comes
Chapter 15. Sitting In
Chapter 16. Breaking Into WaterGate
Chapter 17. Where Trouble Comes
Chapter 17. Where Trouble Comes
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