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Give Me Liberty An American History is a concise, clear, and inclusive narrative of American history written by distinguished historian Eric Foner. With characteristic clarity, Professor Foner has written an accessible, event-based narrative that is enriched throughout by the theme of American freedom. Foner shows students how the meanings of freedom have changed during the course of American history and how the limits of freedom have expanded and contracted in response to social, political, cultural, and economic events. The freedom theme integrates the text and motivates the study of history by alerting students to how much is at stake in understanding America's past. The first edition of Give Me Liberty is available as a compact, low-cost paperback. Featuring the same text as the regular edition in a two-color format, the Seagull Edition is less than half the price.
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The first edition of Give Me Liberty is available as a compact, low-cost paperback. Featuring the same text as the regular edition in a two-color format, the Seagull Edition is less than half the price.
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With characteristic clarity, Professor Foner has written an accessible, event-based narrative that is enriched throughout by the theme of American freedom. Foner shows students how the meanings of freedom have changed during the course of American history and how the limits of freedom have expanded and contracted in response to social, political, cultural, and economic events. The freedom theme integrates the text and motivates the study of history by alerting students to how much is at stake in understanding America's past. The first edition of is available as a compact, low-cost paperback. Featuring the same text as the regular edition in a two-color format, the Seagull Edition is less than half the price.
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is a concise, clear, and inclusive narrative of American history written by distinguished historian Eric Foner.
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Includes questions and definitions of the Key Terms listed at the end of each chapter.
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'\'Concise, clear, compact, Eric Foner\\\"s brilliant synthesis of American history is the perfect teaching tool for the U.S. survey course.\\n
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About the Author
Eric Foner is DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University, where he earned his B.A. and Ph.D. In his teaching and scholarship, Professor Foner focuses on the Civil War and Reconstruction, slavery, and nineteenth-century America. His publications include Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party Before the Civil War (1970); Tom Paine and Revolutionary America (1976); Politics and Ideology in the Age of the Civil War (1980); Nothing But Freedom: Emancipation and Its Legacy (1983); Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877 (1988); Freedom's Lawmakers: A Directory of Black Officeholders During Reconstruction (1993); The Story of American Freedom (1998),; and Who Owns History? Rethinking the Past in a Changing World (2002). Eric Foner has served as president of the Organization of American Historians (1993-94), and as president of the American Historical Association (2000).