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Read Online Download. Add a review Your Rating: Your Comment:. Foner by E. Americas Hidden History by Kenneth C. Join over Chronicles the history of America's pursuit of liberty, tracing the struggles among freed slaves, union organizers, women rights advocates, and other groups to widen freedom's promise.

This is a sweeping new interpretation of the national experience, reconceiving key political events from the Revolution to the New Deal. Rana begins by emphasizing that the national founding was first and foremost an experiment in settler colonization. For American settlers, internal self-government involved a unique vision of freedom, which.

With America's founding principles being debated today as never before, Russell Shorto looks back to the era in which those principles were forged. Drawing on new sources, he weaves the lives of six people into a seamless narrative that casts fresh light on the range of experience in colonial America. In Forever Free, Eric Foner overturns numerous assumptions. Reckoning with History brings together original essays from a diverse group of historians who consider how writing about the past can engage with the urgent issues of the present.

Covering a broad range of topics, these essays illuminate what it means to be a socially and politically engaged historian. If you see a Google Drive link instead of source url, means that the file witch you will get after approval is just a summary of original book or the file has been already removed.

Loved each and every part of this book. I will definitely recommend this book to history, non fiction lovers. Your Rating:. I read this as a contextualized pushback against those who want an uncomplicated, heroic Lincoln.

Because scholars often downplay his uncomfortable beliefs, Foner offers up a deromanticized Lincoln. There are eleven references to the Illinois Black Laws in the index. Lincoln seldom challenged racism per se, probably because his own views were not that progressive.

Lincoln never really spoke much about race except when it endangered his wider political project. Foner demonstrates how significant an idea it was to Lincoln, both before and during the war. His discussion of the border-state Blair clan in this context is instructive. His closest collaborators in the cabinet, like Seward and Stanton, thought the idea crazy, but Lincoln only gradually backed away from it—and the increasingly unpopular Blairs too. The implication is that Lincoln genuinely believed that voluntary colonization was a good idea.

Before the s, what drove him were political ambition and Whig convictions, along with his overriding belief in the rule of law. He had few close black contacts.

Occasionally as a successful lawyer he helped masters get their human property back, and he seldom assisted runaway slaves in court. He repeatedly counseled obedience to the Fugitive Slave statutes.