After the Fact: The Art of Historical Detection

Cover......Page 1
About the Authors......Page 6
Preface......Page 9
Introduction......Page 11
Prologue: The Strange Death of Silas Deane......Page 15
CHAPTER 1. Contact......Page 31
CONSTRUCTION AND RECONSTRUCTION......Page 34
ENTRY INTO AN UNKNOWN WORLD......Page 36
INTO THE Wooos......Page 40
THE QUESTION OF NUMBERS......Page 49
THE MIGRATION OF MICROBES......Page 52
AN ECOLOGICAL EDEN?......Page 56
Additional Reading......Page 60
CHAPTER 2. Serving Time in Virginia......Page 61
A COLONY ON THE EDGE OF RUIN......Page 67
BLUEPRINT FOR A VIRGINIA UTOPIA......Page 68
VIRGINIA BOOM COUNTRY......Page 72
AND SLAVERY?......Page 76
Additional Reading......Page 80
PAST AND PRESENT Is Slavery Dead?......Page 81
CHAPTER 3. The Visible and Invisible Worlds of Salem......Page 82
BEWITCHMENT AT SALEM VILLAGE......Page 83
THE INVISIBLE SALEM......Page 87
THE VISIBLE SALEM......Page 93
"WOMEN ALONE"......Page 100
TANGLED WEBS......Page 102
Additional Reading......Page 104
CHAPTER 4. Declaring Independence......Page 105
THE CREATION OF A TEXT......Page 106
THE TACTICS OF INTERPRETATION......Page 110
ACTIONS SPEAK LOUDER?......Page 119
DECLARING FOR FREEDOM......Page 122
Additional Reading......Page 127
CHAPTER 5. Material Witness......Page 128
ROOM FOR IMPROVEMENT......Page 133
THE REFINING OF AMERICA......Page 141
THE MATERIAL IDENTITIES OF A MIDDLE CLASS......Page 144
DEFINING OURSELVES......Page 150
Additional Reading......Page 152
PAST AND PRESENT Inside the Information Revolution......Page 153
CHAPTER 6. Jackson's Frontier—and Turner's......Page 154
THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THEORY......Page 155
JACKSON: A FRONTIER DEMOCRAT(TARNISHED)......Page 161
JACKSON: LABORER'S FRIEND......Page 167
JACKSON AND THE NEW WESTERN HISTORY......Page 170
Additional Reading......Page 177
CHAPTER 7. The Madness of John Brown......Page 178
THE MOTIVES OF A FANATIC......Page 181
MADNESS OR GENIUS?......Page 188
Additional Reading......Page 200
CHAPTER 8. The View from the Bottom Rail......Page 201
RECOVERING THE FREEDPEOPLE's PoINT OF VIEW......Page 203
THE FREEDPEOPLE SPEAK......Page 208
FREEDOM AND DECEPTION......Page 222
Additional Reading......Page 230
PAST AND PRESENT Whose Oral History?......Page 231
CHAPTER 9. The Mirror with a Memory......Page 233
"REALITY" AND PHOTOGRAPHIC EVIDENCE......Page 237
IMAGES OF THE OTHER HALF......Page 244
Additional Reading......Page 256
PAST AND PRESENTWhy Can't I See Them Now?......Page 257
CHAPTER 10. USDA Government Inspected......Page 259
THE SYMBOLS OF POLITICS......Page 262
THE TANGLE BEHIND THE JUNGLE......Page 266
THE LEGISLATIVE JUNGLE......Page 272
OuT OF THE JUNG LE......Page 281
Additional Reading......Page 284
CHAPTER 11. Sacco and Vanzetti......Page 286
THE QUESTION OF LEGAL EVIDENCE......Page 288
BEYOND GUILT OR INNOCENCE......Page 294
A NATION STIRRED......Page 304
Additional Reading......Page 311
PAST AND PRESENT The Mending Wall?......Page 312
CHAPTER 12. Dust Bowl Odyssey......Page 314
THE SPECIFIC VERSUS THE COLLECTIVE......Page 318
HISTORY BY THE NUMBERS......Page 322
THE ROAD......Page 327
CALIFORNIA......Page 330
THE OTHER MIGRANTS......Page 332
Additional Reading......Page 339
CHAPTER 13. The Decision to Drop the Bomb......Page 340
MODELS OF DECISION MAKING......Page 343
A MODEL OF ORGANIZATIONAL PROCESS......Page 353
A MODEL OF BUREAUCRATIC POLITICS......Page 357
Additional Reading......Page 365
PAST AND PRESENT Truckstop Atomic Science......Page 367
CHAPTER 14. From Rosie to Lucy......Page 369
RETREAT FROM REVOLUTION: A DEMOGRAPHIC PROFILE......Page 372
RETREAT FROM REVOLUTION: THE ROLE OF MASS MEDIA......Page 376
REFLECTION VERSUS MANIPULATION......Page 380
MALE FRAMES AND FEMALE ENERGIES......Page 385
Additional Reading......Page 394
CHAPTER 15. Sitting-In......Page 396
CONTINUITY VERSUS DISCONTINUITY......Page 401
THE CASE FOR CONTINUITY......Page 403
THE BIRTH OF A SOCIAL MOVEMENT......Page 406
WHY HERE? WHY Now?......Page 412
SNCC AND THE DISORGANIZATION OF THE MOVEMENT......Page 417
DISUNION......Page 423
Additional Reading......Page 425
CHAPTER 16. Breaking into Watergate......Page 426
PRESIDENTIAL TAPES......Page 429
THE TAPES AS EVIDENCE......Page 434
THE TAPES AS A WINDOW INTO RICHARD NIXON......Page 439
Additional Reading......Page 449
CHAPTER 17. Where Trouble Comes......Page 450
CINEMATIC MYTHS AND VIETNAM......Page 452
SoN MY: AT GROUND LEVEL......Page 459
DENIAL......Page 464
THE SEARCH FOR NEW MYTHS......Page 469
Additional Reading......Page 477
Credits......Page 479
Index......Page 482