2008
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1 day ago · Eric Foner. 3510 words. A Great Disorder: National Myth and the Battle for America. by Richard Slotkin. Harvard, 512 pp., £29.95, March, 978 0 674 29238 3. It hardly qualifies as news today that the United States, the world’s foremost economic and military power, suffers from a political and cultural malaise.
3 days ago · Historian Eric Foner explains why the Fugitive Slave Act was such a divisive political act and a turning point in the sectional conflicts that had plagued American society during the antebellum era. Foner also describes the role of former slaves in shaping the abolitionist movement.
Jun 20, 2024 · Eric Foner. New York, NY, W. W. Norton, 2010, ISBN: 9780393066180; 448pp.; Price: £19.95. Reviewer: Dr Sebastian Page. University of Oxford. Citation: Dr Sebastian Page, review of The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery, (review no. 1020) https://reviews.history.ac.uk/review/1020.
Jun 10, 2024 · Professor Eric Foner explores: What were Lincoln's motives in deciding for general emancipation? The emancipation itself changed the nature of the war. It reflected a fundamental change in Lincoln's own thinking about the relationship of slavery to the war as well as the future place of blacks in American life.
Jun 3, 2024 · The Unfinished Nation-Coming to America: Portrait of Colonial Life. Examines the transatlantic journey to colonial America and documents the way of life of indentured servants and slaves. Discusses newcomers' adaptation and the integration of their cultures in a newly formed community.
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Jun 5, 2024 · Reconstruction, the period (1865–77) after the American Civil War during which attempts were made to redress the inequities of slavery and its political, social, and economic legacy and to solve the problems arising from the readmission to the Union of the 11 states that had seceded.
3 days ago · The work of Eric Foner and Susan-Mary Grant would certainly suggest that the raw ideological materials were there to construct a stereotypical Southron or planter figure that might play a similar role in the northern states as the Yankee did in the Confederacy.
