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Unsolved history : investigating mysteries of the past
- Title
- Unsolved history : investigating mysteries of the past / Joe Nickell.
- Author
- Nickell, Joe.
- Publication
- Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, c2005.
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Details
- Description
- 179 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
- 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."
- Uniform Title
- Ambrose Bierce is missing and other historical mysteries
- Alternative Title
- Ambrose Bierce is missing and other historical mysteries
- Subjects
- Note
- Originally published: Ambrose Bierce is missing and other historical mysteries, Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, c1992.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 07-5261
- ISBN
- 0813191378 (acid-free paper)
- 9780813191379 (acid-free paper)
- LCCN
- 2005277887
- OCLC
- 60553825
- Author
- Nickell, Joe.
- Title
- Unsolved history : investigating mysteries of the past / Joe Nickell.
- Imprint
- Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, c2005.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 07-5261