Who Owns History? : Rethinking the Past in a Changing World

by Eric Foner

2020-05-15 03:04:44

"Who Owns History? testifies to Eric Foner''s lifelong personal commitment to writing histories that advance the struggle for racial equality and economic justice." -David Glassberg, The Sunday Star-LedgerHistory has become a matter of public controv... Read more

"Who Owns History? testifies to Eric Foner''s lifelong personal commitment to writing histories that advance the struggle for racial equality and economic justice." -David Glassberg, The Sunday Star-Ledger

History has become a matter of public controversy, as Americans clash over such things as museum presentations, the flying of the Confederate flag, and reparations for slavery. So whose history is being written? Who owns it?

Eric Foner answers these and other questions about the historian''s relationship to the world of the past and future in this provocative, even controversial, study of the reasons we care about history-or should.

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File size8.4x5.4x0.9inches
Print pages256
PublisherSt. Martins Press-3PL
Publication date April 1, 2003
Languageeng
ISBN9780809097050
Author
Eric Foner is DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University and the author of numerous works on American history. He has served as president of the American Historical Association, the Or...

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