Synopses & Reviews
Featuring a single author and a single, comprehensive theme,
Give Me Liberty! presents American history with unparalleled clarity and coherence. The study tools in the book and the companion print and electronic package ensure student success in the course.
The Second Edition builds on the success of the first, retaining the unifying theme of freedom while becoming more comprehensive, and adding stronger coverage of Native American and immigration history. In addition, the pedagogy has been strengthened with new Voices of Freedom paired primary sources in each chapter, chapter-opening chronologies, key terms, and more. Overall the presentation remains concise and crisp, free of the encyclopedic detail that clogs so many other survey textbooks.
Synopsis
Featuring a single author and a single, comprehensive theme,
Give Me Liberty!presents American history with unparalleled clarity and coherence. The study tools in the book and the companion print and electronic package ensure student success in the course.
The Second Edition builds on the success of the first, retaining the unifying theme of freedom while becoming more comprehensive, and adding stronger coverage of Native American and immigration history. In addition, the pedagogy has been strengthened with new Voices of Freedompaired primary sources in each chapter, chapter-opening chronologies, key terms, and more. Overall the presentation remains concise and crisp, free of the encyclopedic detail that clogs so many other survey textbooks.
Synopsis
Adopted at over 600 universities, colleges, and schools across the country, Eric Foner's is making a difference in the American history survey course.
Synopsis
This two-volume study guide has approximately 1,700 questions: 1,400 multiple-choice and true/false questions (approximately 50 per chapter), and almost 300 essay questions (about 10 per chapter). The guide includes definitions of key terms and chapter review questions.
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, Foner focuses on the Civil War and Reconstruction, slavery, and nineteenth-century America. His most recent book,
The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the Bancroft Prize, and the Lincoln Prize. His
Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution, 1863–1877, won the Bancroft, Parkman, and
Los Angeles Times Book prizes and remains the standard history of the period. In 2006 Foner received the Presidential Award for Outstanding Teaching at Columbia University. He has served as president of the Organization of American Historians, the American Historical Association, and the Society of American Historians.