Eric Foner
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The New York Vigilance Committee was organized by free blacks working with white abolitionists to protect blacks from kidnappers and slave catchers on the streets. Soon such committees proliferated in the North, and began a collaboration known as the Underground Railroad. Until now, their stories have remained largely unknown. Building on fresh evidence, Eric Foner elevates the underground railroad from folklore to history.
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xxi, 426 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
In a landmark work of deep scholarship and insight, Foner gives us a life of Lincoln as it intertwined with slavery, the defining issue of the time and the tragic hallmark of American history. The author demonstrates how Lincoln navigated a dynamic political landscape deftly, moving in measured steps, often on a path forged by abolitionists and radicals in his party, and that Lincoln's greatness lay in his capacity for moral and political growth....
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company, Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxix, 224 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning scholar comes a timely history of the constitutional changes that built equality into the nation's foundation and how those guarantees have been shaken over time.
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xxx, 268 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
From one of our most distinguished historians, a new examination of the vitally important years of Emancipation and Reconstruction during and immediately following the Civil War-a necessary reconsideration that emphasizes the era's political and cultural meaning for today's America.
Drawing on a wide range of long-neglected documents, Eric Foner places a new emphasis on the centrality of the black experience to an understanding of the era. We see...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1994
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
296 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
In this book, David Farber grounds our understanding of the extraordinary history of the 1960s by linking the events of that era to our country's grand projects of previous decades. Farber's important study, based on years of research in archives and oral histories as well as in historical literature, explores Vietnam, the Civil Rights Act, the War on Poverty, the entertainment business, the drug culture, and much more.