The Story of American freedom
by Eric Foner Author
Review: This is an extraordinary undertaking. Eric Foner has done a brilliant job of making the long and tangled history of the idea of freedom coherent and accessible. In the process, he has accomplished something that historians have talked about for decades and never managed to do. He has written a synthesis of American history that incorporates the new discoveries of recent scholarship and the much more complicated vision of our past that the new scholarship has created; and he has still made the story seem somehow whole. This is a truly remarkable book. -- Alan Brinkley, Colombia University
Additional Details
- Resource Type
- BookRev
- ISBN
- 0-393-04665-6
- Print Status
- In Print
- Chapter/Lessons
- 29
- Pages
- 422
- Suggested Grades
- 9th - 12th
- Historical Setting
- 1763 - 1998
- Publisher
- W.W. Norton
- Copyright
- 1998
Chapter/Lessons
- 0 Introduction
- 1 The Birth of American Freedom: The Freeborn Englishman
- 1 The Birth of American Freedom: Democratizing Freedom
- 2 To Call It Freedom: Slavery and the Republic
- 2 To Call It Freedom: We the People
- 3 An Empire of Liberty: Democracy in America
- 3 An Empire of Liberty: Labor, Free and Slave
- 4 The Boundaries of Freedom in the Young Republic: The Imagined Community
- 4 The Boundaries of Freedom in the Young Republic: Battles at the Boundaries
- 5 A New Birth of Freedom: "We All Declare for Liberty"
- 5 A New Birth of Freedom: "What Is Freedom?"
- 6 Liberty of Contract and Its Discontents: Freedom in the Gilded Age
- 6 Liberty of Contract and Its Discontents: Labor and the Republic
- 6 Liberty of Contract and Its Discontents: Redrawing the Boundaries
- 7 Progressive Freedom: The Varieties of Economic Freedom
- 7 Progressive Freedom: Freedom and the Progressive State
- 8 The Birth of Civil Liberties: World War I and the Crisis of Freedom
- 8 The Birth of Civil Liberties: Who Is an American?
- 9 The New Deal and the Redefinition of Freedom: Security and Freedom
- 9 The New Deal and the Redefinition of Freedom: "A New Conception of Freedom"
- 10 Fighting for Freedom: The Four Freedoms
- 10 Fighting for Freedom: Patriotic Assimilation
- 11 Cold War Freedom: The Free World
- 11 Cold War Freedom: The Triumph of Consumer Freedom
- 12 Sixties Freedom: The Freedom Movement
- 12 Sixties Freedom: The New Left
- 12 Sixties Freedom: The Rights Revolution
- 13 Conservative Freedom: The Rebirth of Conservatism
- 13 Conservative Freedom: The Reagan Revolution and After
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