Battles for freedom
Subtitle: the use and abuse of American history
By: Eric Foner
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 225
ISBN-13: 9781784537692
Subjects: Social conditions; Radicalism; Historiography; History; Radicals
Notes: "Essays from The Nation"--Cover.

Includes index.
Table of contents: title: The men and the symbols -- (August 20, 1977); title: The televised past -- (June 16, 1979); title: The romance of the market -- (December 24, 1990); title: Fighting for the West  -- written with Jon Wiener -- (July 29, 1991); title: The education of Richard Hofstadter -- (May 4, 1992); title: Time for the third Reconstruction -- (February 1, 1993); title: Hiring quotas for white males only -- (June 26, 1995); title: The Great Divide -- (October 30, 1995); title: Our monumental mistakes -- (November 8, 1999); title: Rebel yell -- (February 14, 2000); title: Shedding Lincoln's mantle -- (August 7, 2000); title: Partisanship rules -- (January 1, 2001); title: Southern comfort -- (February 5, 2001); title: The most patriotic act -- (October 8, 2001); title: Changing history -- (September 23, 2002); title: None dare call it treason -- (June 2, 2003); title: Lincoln's antiwar record -- (March 12, 2007); title: Our Lincoln -- (February 1, 2010); title: The professional -- (February 1, 2010); title: Zinn's critical history -- (February 22, 2010); title: Twisting history in Texas -- (April 5, 2010); title: Remembering Eric Hobsbawm -- (October 22, 2012); title: The Civil War in "postracial" America -- (October 10, 2011); title: Warped history -- (July 20, 2015); title: An American birthright -- (September 14, 2015); title: Letter to Bernie -- (November 16, 2015); title: Teaching the history of American radicalism in the age of Obama -- (January 2, 2017); title: A usable past : an interview.