(Ebook) Evidence Explained - Citing History Sources from Artifacts to Cyberspace by Elizabeth Shown Mills ISBN 9780806317816, 0806317817

(Ebook) Evidence Explained - Citing History Sources from Artifacts to Cyberspace by Elizabeth Shown Mills ISBN 9780806317816, 0806317817

HISTORY still waits to be discovered. In courthouses and warehouses, town halls and rectories. dus~ attics and ancient trunks. old records survive in every form imaginable.
Technology delivers other treasures. Websites and DVDs offer documents and relics in many digital formats. Audio files, podcasts, and e-zines stream insight into history. Libraries house fiche and film, reprints and revisions, translations and transcripts, alongside digital access to books and journals published previously in print.
Yet history is not just a collection of documents or "facts" - and all records are not created equal. Records offer evidence, but their assertions may or may not be true. To judge what likely happened, we must understand those records. To analyze that evidence and decide what to believe, we also need certain facts about those records themselves.
Students. scholars. and curious sleuths all face the same questions:
What details must we capture for each type of source in order to understand it and properly interpret its evidence?
How do we evaluate a record's credibility - especially when its information conflicts with assertions made in other sources?
How do we identify each source - not just so it can be found again, but so we and others can judge its reliability?
Evidence Explained guides you through a maze of sources not covered by other citation manuals - all kinds of original records. accessed through different media. A thousand citation models for U.S. 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.