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Evidence Explained guides users through a maze of historical resources not covered by other citation manuals—all kinds of primary-source materials accessed through all kinds of media. More than a thousand examples for U.S. and international documents demonstrate how to handle the quirks that stump users of these materials. 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 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?
- How can we guard against link rot and disappearing sources when doing online research?
Evidence Explained, a Library Journal Best Reference, has answered these questions since 2007. New to the 4th Edition:
- New tutorial: “Building Your Citation” (Chapter 3)
- 14 universal templates for citing every kind of source
- 1000+ citation examples each keyed to a specific template
- Expanded emphasis on digitized primary sources
- Expanded international coverage
- Updated discussions and examples for every type of source and all digital delivery mechanisms
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Elizabeth Shown Mills Elizabeth Shown Mills profile image About the author Elizabeth Shown Mills is an internationally acclaimed historical researcher and writer who has spent her life studying American culture and the relationships between people--emotional as well as genetic. Featured on BBC, CNN, PBS, and other networks in the U.S., U.K., and Australia, she has guest-blogged for the NEW YORK TIMES and has been widely cited as "the genealogist who has had the most influence in the post-Roots era." Her 13 prize-winning books range from reference works such as "Evidence Explained: Citing History Sources from Artifacts to Cyberspace" (Library Journal 2007 Best Reference) to the historical novel, "Isle of Canes," which chronicles a family of freed slaves across four generations, and is drawn from Mills's own research in the archives of six nations. Her latest work is the greatly enlarged, revised edition of the Louisiana State University Press classic, THE FORGOTTEN PEOPLE: CANE RIVER'S CREOLES OF COLOR.
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Evidence Explained, 4th Edition
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Genealogical Publishing Company, 2024
ISBN 10: 0806321318
ISBN 13: 9780806321318
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Evidence Explained: Citing History Sources from Artifacts to Cyberspace, Fourth Edition Revised
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Genealogical Publishing Co, 2024
ISBN 10: 0806321318
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Hard Cover. Condition: New. For today's family historians, records abound. In courthouses and warehouses, town halls and rectories, archives and attics, we find old records in every form imaginable. Technology also delivers documents and relics through many digital formats. Audio files, podcasts, and YouTube stream insight into past lives. Libraries offer film and fiche, reprints, and revisions, translations and transcripts, alongside digital access to books and journals published previously in print. However, all records are not created equal, and history is not just a collection of "facts." Critical analysis is essential, and since 2007 Evidence Explained has been the definitive, go-to guide for those who explore history and seek help with understanding, analyzing, and citing the materials they use. Evidence Explained has two principal uses: it provides citation models for historical sources--especially materials not covered in standard citation guides such as The Chicago Manual of Style. Beyond that, it enables researchers to understand the nature of each source so that evidence they cite can be better interpreted and the accuracy of their conclusions properly appraised. In the six years since the last edition was published, changes at major repositories and online information providers--as well as the ever-evolving electronic world--have generated new citation and analysis challenges for researchers. As a consequence, Mrs. Mills has once again updated her citation models and added descriptions and evaluations of numerous contemporary materials not included in the Third Edition Revised. Evidence Explained's new fourth edition significantly reexamines historical resources and simplifies long-standing practices. Highlights of the Fourth Edition include: Updated Chapters One and Two ("Fundamentals of Analysis" and "Fundamentals of Citation"), continue to lay the foundations for successful research. An entirely new Chapter Three, "Building a Citation," provides a tutorial for the construction of citations. Here, you learn to work with seven basic building blocks that can be mixed and matched to create a citation for any kind of source. Chapter Three's 14 streamlined templates replace the previous 170 QuickChek Models, assembling the basic building blocks as needed to create citations for every type of material--whether accessed as an unpublished manuscript, print publication, database, or online image delivered at a specific URL or through a complex path and its waypoints. All examples in the twelve "Records" chapters (Chapters Four through Fifteen) are keyed to the specific templates that work best for each source or situation. Hundreds of new citation examples emphasize modern modes of access, particularly the layered citations that modern media require. WHAT THE CRITICS SAY. "The definitive guide for how to cite every conceivable kind of source a historian might use, from traditional archival materials to digital media to the most arcane sources imaginable." - John B. Boles, William P. Hobby Professor of History, Rice University "Evidence Explained has a fantastic opening section that really changed my perspective on âevidence.' The citation formats are handy but honestly, it's the commentary from ESM that made me want to buy myself a personal copy sooner rather than later." - Kim Phillips-Sasso, Clarksville-Habersham County [Georgia] Library, as quoted on Goodreads "Historians will welcome the publication of this detailed guide to citations. Even avid users of The Chicago Manual of Style regularly encounter sources for which that handbook gives no guidance. Now we can turn to Elizabeth Shown Mills's comprehensive work." - Journal of Southern History "This is an essential resource for family historians; highly recommended for all libraries." - Library Journal (First edition: Library Journal Best Reference 2007) "I purchased two copies of this book, one to mark and one to keep in "great" condition. I am underlining, circling, adding sticky notes and such to assist in assimilating what Mrs. Mills has put forth in this definitive work." - Dear Myrtle "A staple for any genealogy library. It should be one of the top ten books in any genealogist's collection." - Deborah Sweeney, as quoted on Goodreads "Meant not only as a style guide for the types of source citations used by historians and genealogists, this book also discusses why analysis of information within the total context of a source is imperative to understanding the nature of a fact. Citations not only tell where the source was found, but also can indicate a level of confidence to knowledgeable researchers." - Association of Professional Genealogists Quarterly. Seller Inventory # GPC-2024-9780806321318-X1