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interpretation that held sway in American culture until the 1960s. Indeed, few books published before World War II are even cited in Foner's volume. Unlike the early Revisionists in the late 1950s and early 1960s, Foner is not concerned with refuting a view that he regards as discredited and irrelevant.
Dec 2, 2019 · Both men wrote important works on African American and labor history but, as sympathizers with communism, suffered from an early rehearsal of McCarthyism during World War II, when the New...
The Civil War, he writes, ‘was above all a culture war’, and he presents a persuasive discussion of the part played by a clash of regional cultures in helping to bring about the conflict.
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It was about the post-Civil War period and the political resistance, particularly from Southern states, to the newly adopted constitutional amendments abolishing slavery and guaranteeing racial...
One way of looking at the period, for Du Bois, was as the conflict of two ideals both deeply ingrained in American culture – the democratic ideal and the industrial one.
In 1941, she joined the Free World Association, which urged the United States to enter the war against Hitler. The World War II discourse of a world divided into free and unfree sectors, which originated in the antifascist crusade, took on a new meaning during the Cold War.
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Dec 19, 2014 · The forum commemorated the twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication of Eric Foner's Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863–1877. Kate Masur (Northwestern University) organized and introduced the discussion, and the commentators in order of speaking were the following:
