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Examines how historians, working like detectives, investigate the mysteries of the past and discusses a broad variety of topics and methods including the use of oral evidence, ecological data, and church and town records.
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For more than twenty years, After the Fact has been a popular and best-selling approach to guiding students through American History and the methods used to generate it. In fifteen dramatic episodes that move chronologically through American history, this book examines such topics as oral evidence, photographs, ecological data, films and television programs, church and town records, census data, and novels.
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