The Historian as Detective: Essays on Evidence

With an introduction and a bibliography. A collection of essays by various authors on how historians and historical evidence has been used in court cases in the past. The dust jacket includes another subtitle: The adventurous search for clues to scholarly hoaxes, forgeries, and lost and misleading documents, and the evaluation of evidence in man’s study of his own past. With articles on Richard II, Stonehenge, Homer’s Odyssey, Martin Luther, John F. Kennedy, etc. xxiv, 543, 2 pages. cloth, dust jacket. 8vo.