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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Foner, Eric, 1943- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Radicalism--United States--History.

Radicalism.

Radicals--United States--History.

Radicals.

History.

United States--Social conditions.

United States.

Social conditions.

United States--Historiography.

Historiography.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

225 pages : illustration ; 20 cm

Place of Publication:

London : I.B.Tauris & Co. Ltd, 2017.

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.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

9781784537692

1784537691

OCLC:

974649446

Publisher Number:

99971762829