Preliminary TOC Prologue: The Strange Death of Silas Deane: The Problem of Selecting Evidence 1. Contact 2.
Serving Time in Virginia: The Perspectives of Evidence in Social History 3. The Visible and Invisible Worlds of
Salem: Studying Crisis at the Community Level 4. Declaring Independence: The Strategies of Documentary Analysis
5. Material Witness: Hearth and Home in the Material Culture of a Market Economy 6. Jackson's Frontier-and Turners:
History and Grand Theory 7. The Madness of John Brown: The Uses of Psychohistory 8. The View from the Bottom Rail:
Oral History and the Freed people 9. The Mirror with a Memory: Photographic Evidence and the Urban Scene 10. USDA
Government Inspected: The Jungle of Political History 11. Sacco and Vanzetti: The Case of History versus Law 12.
Dust Bowl Odyssey: The Collective History of a Migration 13. The Decision to Drop the Bomb: The Uses of Models
in History 14. From Rosie to Lucy: The Mass Media and Images of Women in the 1950s 15. Sitting In 16. Breaking
Into WaterGate 17. Where Trouble Comes: History and Myth in the Films of Vietnam
Table of Contents
Prologue: The Strange Death of Silas Deane
Chapter 1. Contact
Chapter 2. Serving Time in Virginia
Chapter 3. The Visible and Invisible Worlds of Salem
