Eric Foner Volgorde van de boeken (chronologisch)

The textbook offers a comprehensive approach to American history, tailored for AP® students. It emphasizes close reading and analytical writing, equipping learners with practical skills essential for success in the AP® course. Enhanced by a robust media package, including interactive tutorials and quizzes, the material prepares students thoroughly for classroom discussions and assessments, fostering a deep understanding of historical content.

This "masterful treatment of one of the most complex periods of American history" (New Republic) made history when it was originally published in 1988. It redefined how Reconstruction was viewed by historians and people everywhere in its chronicling of how Americans -- black and white -- responded to the unprecedented changes unleashed by the war and the end of slavery. This "smart book of enormous strengths" (Boston Globe) has since gone on to become the classic work on the wrenching post-Civil War period -- an era whose legacy reverberates still today in the United States.

Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men has been recognized as a classic, an indispensable contribution to our understanding of the causes of the American Civil War. A key work in establishing political ideology as a major concern of modern Americanhistorians, it remains the only full-scale evaluation of the ideas of the early Republican party. modern American historical writing.