After the Fact: The Art of Historical Detection, (Paperback)

from tuckerresearch

Good text on the historical method with some useful examples of the craft. Leans a bit leftward on some topics. (E.g. Vietnam was all bad, Sacco and Vanzetti were both gloriously innocent and railroaded, etc.)

from mcalister

After the Fact: The Art of Historical Detection is a great teaching book, even though it is sold as a textbook (my overall opinion of textbooks is rather low). Every chapter takes a different historical approach to a different problem in American history and has its own subset of teaching points....

from fundevogel

I am reasonably sure this is a college textbook, but it's shameful something which ought to be the foundation of an education of history seems to be tucked away and forgotten by our education system until you become a history major.  Or possibly minor. The basic goal of the text is to illuminate ...

from fundevogel

I am reasonably sure this is a college textbook, but it's shameful something which ought to be the foundation of an education of history seems to be tucked away and forgotten by our education system until you become a history major.  Or possibly minor. The basic goal of the text is to illuminate ...