For historians, hindsight can be a treacherous ally. Enabling us to trace the hidden patterns of past events, it beguiles us with the mirage of inevitability, the assumption that different outcomes lay beyond the limits of the possible.
A man working for wages his whole life is not really free. That is why Jefferson said, you have to own land. Southerners said, - and they weren't bei… - Eric Foner
A man working for wages his whole life is not really free. That is why Jefferson said, you have to own land. Southerners said, - and they weren't bei…
- Eric Foner
In the Shadow of Slavery covers two and a half centuries of black life in New York City, and skillfully interweaves the categories of race and class … - Eric Foner
In the Shadow of Slavery covers two and a half centuries of black life in New York City, and skillfully interweaves the categories of race and class …
Whenever you think of Lincoln as a historian, in his own mind, he becomes the Great Emancipator. This is his role in history henceforth. He was an am… - Eric Foner
Whenever you think of Lincoln as a historian, in his own mind, he becomes the Great Emancipator. This is his role in history henceforth. He was an am…
For historians, hindsight can be a treacherous ally. Enabling us to trace the hidden patterns of past events, it beguiles us with the mirage of inevi… - Eric Foner
For historians, hindsight can be a treacherous ally. Enabling us to trace the hidden patterns of past events, it beguiles us with the mirage of inevi…
Who owns history? Everyone and no one--which is why the study of the past is a constantly evolving, never-ending journey of discovery. - Eric Foner
Who owns history? Everyone and no one--which is why the study of the past is a constantly evolving, never-ending journey of discovery.
Look, Mrs. McGillicuddy, it's not my fault your son jumped out a dorm room window on Christmas eve. I've written over fifty books as a Columbia profe… - Eric Foner
Look, Mrs. McGillicuddy, it's not my fault your son jumped out a dorm room window on Christmas eve. I've written over fifty books as a Columbia profe…
If you are going to abolish slavery, that opens up all these other questions: what system of labor is going to replace slave labor? What system of ra… - Eric Foner
If you are going to abolish slavery, that opens up all these other questions: what system of labor is going to replace slave labor? What system of ra…
Freedom has been privatized - it is how you dress, what your sexual orientation is, choosing your own life. That's fine. But that is not what Thomas … - Eric Foner
Freedom has been privatized - it is how you dress, what your sexual orientation is, choosing your own life. That's fine. But that is not what Thomas …
A new future requires a new past. - Eric Foner
A new future requires a new past.
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