The New Birth of Freedom from Generation to Generation
Edited by Orville Vernon Burton, and Peter Eisenstadt
Contributions by Richard Carwardine, Joshua Casmir Catalano, Greg Downs, Eric Foner, william haller, J. William Harris, Stephen Kantrowitz, James Loewen, Lawrence McDonnell, Adrienne Petty, Briana Pocratsky, Jerald Podair, Mark Schultz, Randall Stephens, Rhondda Thomas, and Gavin Wright
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CA$67.95
ISBN: 9780807176764
Pub Date: May 2022
Imprint: LSU Press
In his Gettysburg Address, Abraham Lincoln promised that the nation?s sacrifices during the Civil War would lead to a ?new birth of freedom.? Lincoln?s Unfinished Work analyzes how the United States...
Follows centuries of New York activism to reveal the city as a globally influential machine for social change Activist New York surveys New York City?s long history of social activism...
Contributions by Justin Behrend, Greg Downs, Carole Emberton, Eric Foner, Thavolia Glymph, Chandra Manning, Kate Masur, Richard S. Newman, James Oakes, Susan Eva O'Donovan, Hannah Rosen, and Brenda Stevenson
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CA$33.95
ISBN: 9780820351490
Pub Date: November 2017
Imprint: University of Georgia Press
This collection of eleven original essays interrogates the concept of freedom and recenters our understanding of the process of emancipation. Who defined freedom, and what did freedom mean to nineteenth-century...
by Walter Johnson, Eric Foner, and Richard Follett
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CA$32.95
ISBN: 9781421402369
Pub Date: November 2011
Imprint: John Hopkins University
President Abraham Lincoln freed millions of slaves in the South in 1863, rescuing them, as history tells us, from a brutal and inhuman existence and making the promise of freedom and equal rights. This...
Nothing But Freedom examines the aftermath of emancipation in the South and the restructuring of society by which the former slaves gained, beyond their freedom, a new relation to the land they worked...
A Directory of Black Officeholders During Reconstruction
by Eric Foner
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CA$35.95
ISBN: 9780807120828
Pub Date: August 1996
Imprint: LSU Press
With Freedom's Lawmakers, Eric Foner has assembled the first comprehensive directory of the over 1,500 African Americans who held political office in the South during the Reconstruction era. He has...
Foreword by Charles F. Bryan, Jr., and William J. Martin
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CA$33.95
ISBN: 9780807122341
Pub Date: June 1997
Imprint: LSU Press
One of the most misunderstood periods in American history, Reconstruction remains relevant today because its central issue -- the role of the federal government in protecting citizens' rights and promoting...
