Guides students through American History and the methods used to generate it. In fifteen 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.

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.

The view from the bottom rail - oral history and the freed people
the mirror with a memory - photographic evidence and the urban scene
USDA government inspected - the jungle of political history
Sacco and Vanzetti - the case of history versus law
dust bowl odyssey - the collective history of a migration
the decision to drop the bomb - the uses of models in history
from Rosie to Lucy - the mass media and images of women in the 1950s
breaking into Watergate - plumbing a presidency through audio tapes
where trouble comes - history and myth on the films of Vietnam.