03210cam a2200337 i 4500 2470163672 TxAuBib 20250915120000.0 250818s2025||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u bl2025056297 9781324110613 hardcover 35.00 1324110619 hardcover 35.00 (OCoLC)1533459664 TxAuBib rda Foner, Eric, 1943- Our fragile freedoms [BOOK] : essays / Eric Foner. First edition. New York : W.W. Norton & Company, 2025. xxvii, 466 pages ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes index. Part I : Slavery and antislavery. The rise and fall of American slavery ; The slave ship ; American slavery: the first two centuries ; The line ; Washington and slavery ; Inside the largest slave auction ; Israel Hill ; States Rights and Fugitive Slaves ; Lincoln and Brown ; Lincoln and Douglass -- Part II : The Civil War and Reconstruction. Death and meaning in the Civil War ; The Civil War in "Post-racial" America ; The emancipation of Abraham Lincoln ; On Jefferson Davis ; The making and breaking of the legend of Robert E. Lee ; Longstreet ; The war within the Confederacy ; Why Reconstruction matters ; Donald Trump's unconstitutional dreams ; We should embrace the ambiguity of the Fourteenth Amendment ; Boston's Black activists ; Colfax ; When the Court chooses the President -- Part III : Jim Crow America. American freedom ; The right to discriminate ; Land and freedom in the aftermath of slavery ; A Black dynasty and its fate ; Race, rights, and the law ; Everyday violence in the Jim Crow South ; Tulsa: Forgetting and remembering -- Part IV : The Movement. Reporting the Movement ; The double V ; The real Rosa Parks ; Riding for freedom ; A great American ; King's dream at 60 ; Whatever happened to integration? -- Part V : An imperfect democracy. The Electoral College ; Political wars of the Gilded Age ; The oldest Mass party ; The first black president ; Free speech and its history ; American anarchists ; The war on Civil Liberties ; Chicago, 1968 ; The Court: Grave of liberty ; American Exceptionalism, American Freedom ; Letter to Bernie ; The enemy within -- Part VI : History, memory, historians. The monuments question ; Textbook history ; Twisting history in Texas ; Du Bois ; Rayford Logan ; Vann Woodward ; Hofstadter ; American myth. "This collection of Foner's recent reviews and commentaries demonstrates the range of his interests and expertise, running from slavery and antislavery, through the disunion and remaking of the United States in the nineteenth century, Jim Crow and the civil rights movement, and into our current politics.". 20250915. Civil rights movements United States History 19th century. Slavery United States History 19th century. Antislavery movements United States History 19th century. United States History.