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.
New Chapter 11 This entirely new chapter replaces the chapter on Huey Long with the story of the �Dust Bowl Odyssey�
and the migration of the Okies.
New Chapter 14 This chapter focuses on presidential audiotapes as a source for historians. While Watergate provides
the major focus, transcripts based on tape recordings during the Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon years are also examined.
Chapter 2 has been rewritten to incorporate recent scholarship on the witchcraft accusations and the psychological,
social, and economic circumstances surrounding them.
Chapter 3 includes new information on slavery in terms of the views of Jefferson and the Continental Congress and
in terms of how slaves affected the drafters of the Declaration of Independence.
Table of Contents
CHAPTER ONE
Serving Time in Virginia:
The Perspectives of Evidence in Social History
CHAPTER TWO
The Visible and Invisible Worlds of Salem:
Studying Crisis at the Community Level
CHAPTER THREE
Declaring Independence:
The Strategies of Documentary Analysis
CHAPTER FOUR
Jackson's Frontier�and Turner's:
History and Grand Theory
CHAPTER FIVE
The Invisible Pioneers:
Ecological Transformations along the Western Frontier
CHAPTER SIX
The Madness of John Brown:
The Uses of Psychohistory
CHAPTER SEVEN
The View from the Bottom Rail:
Oral History and the Freedpeople
CHAPTER EIGHT
The Mirror with a Memory:
Photographic Evidence and the Urban Scene
CHAPTER NINE
USDA Government Inspected:
The Jungle of Political History
CHAPTER TEN
Sacco and Vanzetti:
The Case of History versus Law
CHAPTER ELEVEN
Dust Bowl Odyssey:
The Collective History of a Migration
CHAPTER TWELVE
The Decision to Drop the Bomb:
The Uses of Models in History
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
From Rosie to Lucy:
The Mass Media and Images of Women in the 1950s
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
Breaking into Watergate:
Plumbing a Presidency through Audio Tapes
CHAPTER FIFTEEN
Where Trouble Comes:
History and Myth in the Films of Vietnam
