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After the Fact: The Art of Historical Detection, 6/e

James West Davidson, Historian
Mark H. Lytle, Bard College

ISBN: 0073385484
Copyright year: 2010

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  • 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.
  • To purchase an electronic eBook version of this title, visit www.CourseSmart.com (ISBN 0-07-731914-1).
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