Who owns history? : rethinking the past in a changing world / Eric Foner.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Foner, Eric, 1943-
Language:English
Published: New York : Hill and Wang, 2002.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
United States > History > Philosophy.
United States > Historiography.
United States > Politics and government > Philosophy.
Physical Description:xix, 233 pages ; 22 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Preface
  • Part I : Politics of history and historians
  • My life as a historian ; Education of Richard Hofstadter
  • Part II : Rethinking history in a changing world
  • American freedom in a global age ; 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?
  • Part III : Enduring civil war
  • Who is an American? ; Blacks and the U.S. Constitution ; Ken Burns and the romance of reunion.