Unsolved history: investigating mysteries of the past
by Nickell, Joe
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 Ambrose Bierce, and the apparent real-life model for a mysterious character in a novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Nickell also uses newly uncovered evidence to reveal the identity of John Demjanjuk, otherwise known as …
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- Full title :Unsolved history : investigating mysteries of the past / Joe Nickell.
Summary
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 Ambrose Bierce, and the apparent real-life model for a mysterious character in a novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Nickell also uses newly uncovered evidence to reveal the identity of John Demjanjuk, otherwise known as "Ivan the Terrible."
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- Publication Date:©2005.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):University Press of Kentucky
- Place of Publication:Lexington, Ky
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2005.
Notes
Originally published: Ambrose Bierce is missing and other historical mysteries, Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, ©1992.
The Physical Object
- Description:179 pages : : illustrations ; : 23 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0813191378, 9780813191379
- oclc:ocm60553825
- LC Classification:D21.3
- Dewey Decimal:902
Table of Contents
Introduction : history and the investigative approach -- Ancient riddles : the mystery of the Nazca lines -- Biographical enigmas : Ambrose Bierce is missing -- Hidden identity : unmasking a Nazi monster -- Fakelore : Swift's lost silver mine -- Questioned artifacts : D. Boone riddles -- Suspect documents : Lincoln's Bixby letter -- Lost texts : Cooke's "missing" edition -- Obscured sources : Hawthorne's "veiled lady" -- Scientific challenges : pseudoscience and the shroud -- Afterword : some lessons learned.
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