Forever Free: The Story Of Emancipation And Reconstruction - Hardcover

Foner, Eric; Brown, Joshua

 
9780375402593: Forever Free: The Story Of Emancipation And Reconstruction

Synopsis

Analyzes the post-Civil War era of Emancipation and Reconstruction with an emphasis on discovering the larger political and cultural meaning for contemportary America of the lives of the newly freed slaves and the rise of the Ku Klux Klan. 35,000 first printing.

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About the Author

Eric Foner, a winner of the Bancroft Prize and the Francis Parkman Prize, is the DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His books include The Story of American Freedom and Politics and Ideology in the Age of the Civil War. He lives in New York City.

Joshua Brown is the executive director of the American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. His books include Beyond the Lines: Pictorial Reporting, Everyday Life, and the Crisis of Gilded Age America. He lives in New York City.

This book is the first effort of the Los Angeles-based Forever Free Project, an ongoing collaboration among film and television producers and writers and our most distinguished historians and scholars. The Forever Free Project is preparing a film on Emancipation and Reconstruction.

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9780375702747: Forever Free: The Story of Emancipation and Reconstruction (Vintage)

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ISBN 10:  0375702741 ISBN 13:  9780375702747
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2006
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