After the Fact: The Art of Historical Detection

by James West Davidson, Mark H. Lytle

2009 · McGraw-Hill Higher Education

In episodes that move chronologically through American history, this 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. The author introduces readers, step by step, to the detective work and analytical approaches historians use when they are actually doing history.