After the fact

the art of historical detection

About this book

Under the historians eye, the puzzles of the past turn and reveal themselves. Here are good stories well told, displaying the essential fascination of scholarship in action and what it can accomplish.

Subjects

  • addresses, essays, lectures
  • historiography
  • history
  • history, methodology
  • textbooks
  • united states, historiography
  • united states -- historiography -- addresses, essays, lectures
  • united states, history
  • united states -- history -- addresses, essays, lectures