After the Fact

The strange death of Silas Deane - the problem of selecting evidence; serving time in Virginia - the perspectives of evidence in social history; the visible and invisible worlds of Salem - studying crisis at the community level; declaring independence - the strategies of documentary analysis; Jackson's frontier and Turner's - history and grand theory; the invisible pioneers - ecological transformations along the Western frontier; the madness of John Brown - the uses of psychohistory; the view for the bottom rail - oral history and the freedmen's point of view; 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; Huey Generis - the Louisiana kingfish and "great man" history; 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; instant Watergate - footnoting "The Final Days" ; where trouble comes - history and myth in the films of Vietnam.