Amazon.com Book Description (ISBN 0070156093, Paperback)

This critically acclaimed text uses 15 dramatic episodes in American history to demonstrate the process of historical detective work and reconstruction. The authors use a unique combination of dramatic narrative and historical methods to engage students in the "doing" of history. The authors show how historians uncover raw materials, ask questions, and shape their findings into narrative to create what we read as "history." Students come to appreciate history as a dynamic field and become more involved as critical readers of history. This edition includes a final chapter on the Vietnam experience, and dramatic films as historical evidence.