The New 4th Edition of Evidence Explained

Why Evidence Explained has been the go-to guide for history researchers since 2007:

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?
• How can we guard against link rot and disappearing sources when doing online research?

Evidence Explained guides us 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.

About the author:

Elizabeth Shown Mills is a historical writer with decades of research experience in public and private records of many western nations. Published widely in both academic and popular presses, Mills edited a national scholarly journal for sixteen years, taught for thirteen years at a National Archives-based institute on archival records, and for twenty-five years headed a university-based program in advanced research methodology. Mills knows records, loves records, and regularly shares her expertise in them with live and media audiences around the world.

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