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26 set 2011 · ADVANCE PRAISE FOR THE FIERY TRIAL: "While many thousands of books deal with Lincoln and slavery, Eric Foner has written the definitive account of this crucial subject, illuminating in a highly original and profound way the interactions of race, slavery, public opinion, politics, and Lincoln's own character that led to the wholly improbable uncompensated emancipation of some four million slaves.
- Eric Foner
Come nota Alessandro Portelli nella sua postfazione, la sottolineatura dei limiti della libertà americana non diventa per Foner l'occasione per una distruzione del mito americano, ma contribuisce piuttosto a rafforzare il senso di quanto centrale sia l'idea di libertà nell'identità di un paese che, pur nelle sue evidenti contraddizioni, non smette mai di cercarla.
da Eric Foner, Kathleen DuVal, Lisa McGirr. 28,76 € 41,08 €. The #1 U.S. history text with inclusive new coverage and improved support for student readers. Give Me Liberty! is beloved by instructors and students alike because it delivers an authoritative, concise, and integrated American history.
9 ott 2015 · In 1850, victory in the war against southern slavery seemed far off, if not impossible. Slaveholders’ power in the slave states was virtually unassailable,
1 giu 2023 · Eric Foner. 3344 words. Freedom’s Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power. by Jefferson Cowie. Basic, 497 pp., £25, December 2022, 978 1 5416 7280 2. Earlier this year, Randy McNally, the speaker of the Tennessee Senate, issued a proclamation declaring April 2023 Confederate History Month. He urged ‘citizens from across this ...
5 ott 2023 · Eric Foner. by Jonathan Eig. In March 1968, only a few days before his assassination, Martin Luther King Jr visited Long Beach, a suburb of New York City, at the invitation of a local NAACP leader. Like many suburbs at that time, Long Beach was effectively a segregated community, with an African American population living in a tiny ghetto and ...
1 lug 2006 · Eric Foner is DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University and a former president of the OAH. He is the author of numerous books, including Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men (1970); Reconstruction: America's Un. nished Revolution (1988); The Story of American Freedom (1998); and Who Owns History?
