Battles for freedom : the use and abuse of American history / Eric Foner

Object Details

author

Foner, Eric 1943-

Includes index.

Contents

The men and the symbols (August 20, 1977) -- The televised past (June 16, 1979) -- The romance of the market (December 24, 1990) -- Fighting for the West / written with Jon Wiener (July 29, 1991) -- The education of Richard Hofstadter (May 4, 1992) -- Time for the third Reconstruction (February 1, 1993) -- Hiring quotas for white males only (June 26, 1995) -- The Great Divide (October 30, 1995) -- Our monumental mistakes (November 8, 1999) -- Rebel yell (February 14, 2000) -- Shedding Lincoln's mantle (August 7, 2000) -- Partisanship rules (January 1, 2001) -- Southern comfort (February 5, 2001) -- The most patriotic act (October 8, 2001) -- Changing history (September 23, 2002) -- None dare call it treason (June 2, 2003) -- Lincoln's antiwar record (March 12, 2007) -- Our Lincoln (February 1, 2010) -- The professional (February 1, 2010) -- Zinn's critical history (February 22, 2010) -- Twisting history in Texas (April 5, 2010) -- Remembering Eric Hobsbawm (October 22, 2012) -- The Civil War in "postracial" America (October 10, 2011) -- Warped history (July 20, 2015) -- An American birthright (September 14, 2015) -- Letter to Bernie (November 16, 2015) -- Teaching the history of American radicalism in the age of Obama (January 2, 2017) -- A usable past : an interview

2017

Type

Books

History

Physical description

225 pages ; 20 cm

Place

United States

Smithsonian Libraries

Topic

Radicalism--History

Radicals--History

Social conditions

Historiography

Record ID

siris_sil_1079785

Metadata Usage (text)

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