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After the Fact: The Art of Historical Detection
After the Fact The Art of Historical Detection
Author: James West Davidson, Mark Hamilton Lytle
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 progra...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780394354750
ISBN-10: 0394354753
Publication Date: 1986
Pages: 427
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Publisher: Distributed by Random House
Book Type: Paperback
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This is a very interesting analysis of the process of historical writing. It shows how those who write history, like the rest of us, are influenced by their own experience and perspective, and the impact that influence may have on the "hard facts." I found it very interesting and a helpful tool to better understand the limits of all we are told is true.


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