Who Owns History? Rethinking the Past in a Changing World

Name: Who Owns History? Rethinking the Past in a Changing World
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ISBN: 9780809097050

ISBN-10: 0809097052

ISBN-13: 9780809097050

Edition: 2003

Authors: Eric Foner

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“Who Owns History? testifies to Eric Foner’s lifelong personal commitment to writing histories that advance the struggle for racial equality and economic justice.” —David Glassberg, The Sunday Star-Ledger History has become a matter of public controversy, as Americans clash over such things as museum presentations, the flying of the Confederate flag, and reparations for slavery. So whose history is being written? Who owns it? Eric Foner answers these and other questions about the historian’s relationship to the world of the past and future in this provocative, even controversial, study of the reasons we care about history—or should.

Book details

List price: $19.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Publication date: 4/16/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.58" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English

Eric Foner is a professor of American history at Columbia University.



Preface



The Politics of History and Historians



My Life as a Historian



The Education of Richard Hofstadter



Rethinking History in a Changing World



American Freedom in a Global Age



The Russians Write a New History



"We Must Forget the Past": History in the New South Africa



Why Is There No Socialism in the United States?



The Enduring Civil War



Who Is an American?



Blacks and the U.S. Constitution



Ken Burns and the Romance of Reunion


Notes


Index