Unsolved History : Investigating Mysteries of the Past.
What constitutes historical truth is often subject to change. Joe Nickell demonstrates the techniques used in solving some of the world's most perplexing mysteries, such as the authenticity of Abraham Lincoln's celebrated Bixby letter, the 1913 disappearance of writer and journalist Ambros...
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University Press of Kentucky,
2010.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; UNSOLVED HISTORY; Title; Copyright; Dedicated to JOHN T. SHAWCROSS; CONTENTS; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction: History and the Investigative Approach; 2 Ancient Riddles: The Mystery of the Nazca Lines; 3 Biographical Enigmas: Ambrose Bierce Is Missing; 4 Hidden Identity: Unmasking a Nazi Monster; 5 Fakelore: Swift's Lost Silver Mine; 6 Questioned Artifacts: D. Boone Riddles; 7 Suspect Documents: Lincoln's Bixby Letter; 8 Lost Texts: Cooke's "Missing" Edition; 9 Obscured Sources: Hawthorne's "Veiled Lady"; 10 Scientific Challenges: Pseudoscience and the Shroud.
- 11 Afterword: Some Lessons LearnedNotes; Index.