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Loading... Evidence explained : citing history sources from artifacts to cyberspace (edition 2007)by Elizabeth Shown Mills
Work detailsEvidence Explained: Citing History Sources from Artifacts to Cyberspace by Elizabeth Shown Mills
None. Evidence Explained guides you through a maze of sources not covered by other citation manuals - all kinds of origianl records, accessed through different media. A thousand citation models for US and international documents demonstrate how to handle the quirks that stump us when we use those materials. Evidence explained is the go-to guide for everyone who explores the past. 2  |   LisaEllam | Mar 7, 2010 |   This review was written for LibraryThing Early Reviewers. )1 mighel | Dec 4, 2009 | This review was written for LibraryThing Early Reviewers.The Foreword begins with the statement "All sources lie" by 'Lawrence of Arabia'. Fascinating to see the intellectual kinship between T. E. Lawrence and Dr. Gregory House. The first chapter is a concise, lucid exposition of epistemology applied to historical evidence. Points to the author for including references to two books by Joe Nickell about photographic evidence and detecting fraud. The rest of the book is an extensive discussion of types of evidence, such as artifacts, government and church records, and various publications. To show how complete it is, one can learn here how to cite Frakturs and samplers. One thing I learned from this book was the word 'presentism': interpreting the past through current ideology or opinions. The example given is that the phrase 'free people of color' did not mean just African Americans: it included Native Americans and other ethnic groups. Another thing I learned was how content analysis can help detect fraud: forgers often include extra detail to make their documents plausible, and this extra information can be tested for accuracy (p. 32). Finally, I learned that there is such a thing as negative evidence: some states will issue a Certificate of Failure to Find if a search for a death certificate does not reveal one (p. 463-4). The astute reader will see a problem with the book: it discusses how to cite online data such as web pages, blogs, etc. Since the book dates back to 2007, it is already being overtaken by technology. For example, a future edition will probably mention Facebook and YouTube explicitly, as well as photos taken with cell phones. In other words, to be most useful, this book should be available online, with updates more than once a year. I don't see a reference to an online version mentioned in the book itself. Otherwise, the book is quite complete. The only other thing that I did not find therein was a discussion of how to cite cuneiform tablets. (  )2 bertilak | Jul 26, 2009 | This review was written for LibraryThing Early Reviewers. ) bookdoctor | Jul 23, 2009 | Signed by author  ddugle | Jul 21, 2008 | no reviews | add a review
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