After the Fact, Volume II, with Primary Source Investigator CD: The Art of Historical Detection [Paperback]

James West Davidson (Author), Mark Lytle (Author)

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Publication Date: July 30, 2004 | ISBN-10: 0072996110 | ISBN-13: 978-0072996111 | Edition: 5

For more than twenty-five years, After the Fact has provided a time-tested, innovative approach to guiding 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 like oral evidence, photographs, ecological data, films and television programs, church and town records, census data, and novels. Whether for the introductory survey or for a historical methods course, After the Fact is the ideal text for any instructor who wants to introduce his or her students to what it is that historians actually do when studying American history.

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About the Author

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.

Mark H. Lytle received his Ph.D. from Yale University and is Professor of History and Environmental Studies. he has served two years as Mary Ball Washington Professor of American History at University College, Dublin, in Ireland. His publications include The Origins of the Iranian-American Alliance, 1941-1953, After the Fact: The Art of Historical Detection (with James West Davidson), America's Uncivil Wars: The Sixties Era from Elvis to the Fall of Richard Nixon, and, most recently, The Gentle Subversive: Rachel Carson, Silent Spring, and the Rise of the Environmental Movement. He is co-editor of a joint issue of the journals of Diplomatic History and Environmental History dedicated to the field of environmental diplomacy.

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages; 5 edition (July 30, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0072996110
• ISBN-13: 978-0072996111
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.2 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #753,118 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars good but i'd reccommend the longer version, March 2, 2009

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This review is from: After the Fact, Volume II, with Primary Source Investigator CD: The Art of Historical Detection (Paperback)

this book covers most of the things my professor goes over but i think there's a more complete version because he references things as in the book that aren't in mine.