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Evidence Explained: Citing History Sources from Artifacts to Cyberspace, Third Edition, by Elizabeth Shown Mills
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Eight years have passed since the first edition of Evidence Explained, the definitive guide to the citation and analysis of historical sources--a guide so thorough that it leaves nothing to chance. Yet advances in genealogy and history research, changes at major repositories and online information providers, and the ever-evolving electronic world have generated new citation and analysis challenges for researchers. While countless websites now suggest ways to identify their offerings, few of those address the analytical needs of a researcher concerned with the nature and provenance of web material, whose numerous incarnations and transformations often affect the reliability of their content.Like the previous editions of Evidence Explained, the third edition explains citation principles for both traditional and nontraditional sources; includes more than 1,000 citation models for virtually every source type; and shows readers where to go to find their sources and how to describe and evaluate them. It contains many new citation models, updates to websites, and descriptions and evaluations of numerous contemporary materials not included in earlier editions.Highlights of the third edition include:
- QuickStart Guide
- Expanded 3x3 Evidence Analysis Process Model
- Expanded coverage for genetic citations
- Expanded coverage of layered citations
- Latest concepts in evidence analysis
- Coverage of latest media and delivery systems
- Expanded glossary
- Handling of cached materials at Wayback Machine and elsewhere
- Privacy standards for genetic research
- Updates in National Archives citations after changes at NARA and TNG
- Updates for major online providers after acquisitions and mergers
- When to cite DOIs vs. URLs
- When to cite Stable URLs vs. paths and keywords
- Your 4 Basic Rules for citing websites
- & many other issues raised by users of past editions
- Amazon Sales Rank: #35191 in Books
- Published on: 2015-05-22
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Hardcover
- 892 pages
Review "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"Twenty-first century technology confronts historians and students with a bewildering proliferation of information some of it accurate and too much of it dubious. In Evidence Explained, Mills demonstrates how to separate the wheat from the chaff and how to report one's sources and achievements. This encyclopedic guidebook is an invaluable resource for historians, students and editors alike." --Jon Kukla, author of Mr. Jefferson's Women and A Wilderness So Immense: The Louisiana Purchase and the Destiny of America"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"A key resource guide for scholars and serious researchers who must rely upon and understand historical evidence. Highly recommended."--R.V. Labaree, Choice"This is an essential resource for family historians; highly recommended for all libraries."--Library Journal (First edition: Library Journal Best Reference 2007)"In standardizing a family history style, Mills has advanced the discipline. She has given researchers, writers, editors, and publishers invaluable new tools to bring quality and consistency to their work and distinction to the field."--National Genealogical Society Quarterly"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
About the Author Elizabeth Shown Mills is an award-winning historical writer with decades of research experience in public and private records of many Western nations. Published widely by academic and popular presses, Mills edited a national scholarly journal for 16 years, taught for 13 years at a National Archives-based institute on archival records and, for 25 years, headed a university-based program in advanced research methodology. Mills knows records, loves records, and regularly shares her expertise in them with audiences across three continents.
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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful. Must-have reference--unless you already own the previous edition By CrankyToday I just bought the Third Edition of "Evidence Explained" by Elizabeth Shown Mills. Of course, this book is the holy grail on genealogical citation writing. I'm comparing it with my copy of Second Edition Revised (which, by the way, is NOT the same as the Second Edition). The Third Edition has added three pages in the front as a sorely needed "quick start". The glossary and index appear to be larger. The main body of the book is exactly the same number of pages, although it appears that some point-wise revisions have been made. My recommendation to any serious genealogist is that you MUST buy this book--unless you already have a Second Edition Revised. If you already have Second Edition Revised, there's probably not enough additional value to justify the cost.
17 of 21 people found the following review helpful. Lots of rules, citation models and discussion, but not a how-to book By Aphotog Although the book is stepwise, methodical and thorough in its definition and discussion of rules, I found it near impossible to use for self-learning this style of historical citation. It is not a how-to book. What is needed is an accompanying book with examples that show how to analyze a source in order to find the most appropriate model or models out of the hundreds of citation models provided.The book does well on discussion of the details of each citation model, but assumes that the table of contents, chapter sub-headings and text are sufficient to lead the user to the correct model. But they aren’t. One can find three or four different models in very different sections of the book and then be at a loss as to which, if any, should be used.What is missing are at least a few dozen diverse examples that show, top down, how to analyze a source to identify its most pertinent qualities, and then how to use that information to find the most appropriate citation model, with some confidence that the choice is correct. By the way, I have a master’s degree in library science, and while in library school I spent a semester immersed in a (required) course in cataloging with a similar tome called AACR2. However, AACR2 was the book of rules, not the text from which we learned how to use it.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. It's good to have detailed examples of how to cite a ... By Mark It's good to have detailed examples of how to cite a source. I've used it quite a bit since the book arrived.
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