Voices Of Freedom By Eric Foner
Voices of Freedom: A Documentary History (Fifth Edition) (Vol. 2) 5th Edition by Eric Foner and Publisher W. Norton & Company. Save up to 80% by choosing the eTextbook option for ISBN: 067,. The print version of this textbook is ISBN: 503,. Eric Foner, History of American Freedom Chapter 8. Wartime repression and the constitutional amendment prohibiting manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors showed that public power could go awry. Drawing from Prewar struggle for freedom of expression, Progressives formed a new appreciated for civil liberties.
Eric Foner On Reconstruction
An invaluable supplement to the text, all the primary source documents address the theme of American freedom in its many dimensions. It is a compact, unintimidating collection, with documents of reasonable length. Each primary source is accompanied by a headnote and critical thinking questions written by Eric Foner.
New selections in the Third Edition, approximately 15 percent of the total, reflect the global theme in Give Me Liberty! These additional readings place American history more fully in a global context. The Third Edition also includes more documents per chapter, but cuts back on the length of the headnotes.
The new edition remains the same size as the Second Edition and is a perfect length for packaging. Eric Foner is the preeminent historian of his generation. His books have won the top awards in the profession, and he has been president of both major history organizations, the American Historical Association and the Organization of American Historians.
He is the author of Give Me Liberty!, which displays all of his trademark strengths as a scholar, teacher, and writer. A specialist on the Civil War/Reconstruction period, he regularly teaches the nineteenth-century survey at Columbia University, where he is DeWitt Clinton Professor of History. In 2011, Foner's The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery won the Pulitzer Prize in History, the Bancroft Prize, and the Lincoln Prize. His Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad is a 2015 New York Times bestseller.