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Author
Language
English
Description
Historian Eric Foner chronicles the way in which Americans -- black and white -- responded to the unprecedented changes unleashed by the war and the end of slavery. He addresses the quest of emancipated slaves searching for economic autonomy and equal citizenship, and describes the remodeling of Southern society, the evolution of racial attitudes and patterns of race relations, and the emergence of a national state possessing vastly expanded authority...
Author
Publisher
Hill and Wang
Pub. Date
2003, ©2002
Language
English
Description
"History has become a matter of public controversy as Americans clash over such things as museum presentations, the flying of the Confederate flag, and reparations for slavery. So whose history is being written? Who owns it? Eric Foner answers these and other questions about the historian's relationship to the world in this provocative, even controversial, study of the reasons we care about history--or should."--Page 4 of cover.
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