After the Fact: The Art of Historical Detection, 6/e
James West Davidson,
Historian Mark H. Lytle,
Bard College
ISBN: 0073385484 Copyright year: 2010
New to this Edition
A new Chapter 1, Contact, explores the dramatic decline of the Indian population in the Mississippi region after the De Soto expedition of 1539-1543. Could the population have been decimated by diseases spread by De Soto's army of 700 pigs?
A new chapter on the Civil Rights movement looks at the 1960 lunch counter demonstrations in Greensboro, examining the unique factors and forces surrounding these events that helped a broad social movement take wing.
Significant revisions in Chapter 7, "The Madness of John Brown", reexamine John Brown's unsuccessful raid on Harper's Ferry from a clinical psychological perspective, generating a case that he was bipolar and raising the question of whether labeling him with a psychological disorder in any way detracts from the significance of his beliefs.
A fresh design complements the engaging narrative while careful edits throughout streamline the presentation and provides greater accessibility.
Primary Source Investigator Online. This database, now online with free access to all students on the Online Learning Center, offers a wealth of primary sources such as interactive maps, charts, photos, and documents with contextual information on each source, and thought-provoking questions that show students how historians look at sources. In addition, PSI has a program that walks students through how to write a paper using sources as evidence and is also easy to use in the classroom to support lecture and discussion.
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