The most important chapter in this reading is when Foner talks about how freedom means different things to different people. Foner explains the two different types that people think about freedom. The first way people think of freedom is by protecting indivuals from authority. The second is to make choices freely without anyone concerned about you. This part was important because no one was use to this concept so it took time to get this in their head. As these different kinds of freedom were put
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The thesis "The New View of Reconstruction"‚ Eric Foner reviews the constantly changing view on the subject of the Reconstruction. The postwar Reconstruction period has been viewed in many different lights throughout history but one fact remains true‚ that it was one of the most "violent‚ dramatic and controversial" times in US’s history (224). In the beginning of his thesis‚ Eric Foner talks about the way the Reconstruction was though as before the 1960 as a period of intense‚ corruption and manipulation
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Nina Stiener Mr. Maynard APUSH Period 3 10 January 2010 Reconstruction: Eric Foner The Reconstruction time period‚ 1865 through 1877‚ was a complex time for America. The southern part of the nation was in need of governmental‚ economical‚ and social repair after losing the Civil War. Radical Republicans‚ Democrats‚ and newly freed African Americans all were influential in the age of Reconstruction. Historians have struggled to put into words exactly what Reconstruction incorporates and precisely
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A Review of Eric Foner’s “Reconstruction Revisited” Jonathan Fetterley History 202: American History 1840-1900 August 4‚ 2014 In 1982 Eric Foner‚ a historian and writer‚ penned an article called “Reconstruction Revisited”. In this article he expressed his views on the Reconstruction period of American history‚ and how this period of time had become the subject of much debate. To begin this discussion Foner writes‚ "historians have failed to produce a coherent modern portrait of
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“Review of Reconstruction Revisited” In “Reconstruction Revisited”‚ Eric Foner reexamines the political‚ social‚ and economic experiences of black and white Americans in the aftermath of the Civil War. With the help of many historian works‚ Foner gives equal representation to both sides of the Reconstruction argument. Foner writes that nowhere‚ was the transfer in black life more profound than in politics. The amazing political mobilization of the black community was one of the most striking
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American Reconstruction: A Revolution or a Failure? Historians Eric Foner and C. Vann Woodward‚ provide a Tyson Vs Ali fight in the debate over whether the American Reconstruction period was in fact a revolution or a failure. Each provides an in-depth analysis supporting his argument. Foner takes the approach that the Reconstruction was a Revolution‚ explaining‚ that “Reconstruction allowed scope for a remarkable political and social mobilization of black‚ community‚ opening doors of opportunity
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schools and churches‚ reuniting families that were separated under slavery and seeking financial dependence. Foner (2014) supports the same argument: “Blacks relished the opportunity to demonstrate their liberation from the regulation‚ significant and trivial‚ associated with slavery. They openly held mass meeting and religious services free of white supervision” (p. 557) . In addition‚ Foner (1014) also found “Former slaves’ ideas of freedom‚ like those of rural people throughout the world‚ were directly
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Reconstruction Rebecca Howard University of Phoenix #1 I found that I had mixed feelings as to if the Reconstruction was a splendid failure or not so I did some research. The Reconstruction is surrounded by controversy. Eric Froner asserts that the Reconstruction did not achieve the radical goals that were hoped for but the Reconstruction did offer African Americans in the south a vison of a free society even if only temporarily. Historians have categorized the Reconstruction as a total failure
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Eric Foner analyzes a very crucial part of the war‚ the debate over slavery and the event of emancipation by unearthing Lincoln’s thoughts on slavery since he was a child in Kentucky‚ to his final days serving in the White House. He relies on speeches‚ personal letters‚ and newspapers to do this in such a way that he does not frame emancipation as an inevitable occurrence‚ but instead as a junction of theory and unforeseen stimulus‚ depending also on Lincoln’s personal strive to diminish slavery
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In The New View of Reconstruction‚ Eric Foner says that even though Reconstruction failed to meet the goals of Radical Republicans‚ painlessly rebuild the South‚ and give the freed blacks complete rights and opportunities‚ Reconstruction did give African Americans some new chances and a brief taste of a free society. Political‚ social‚ and economic progress was made by blacks through the 14th and 15th amendments. Good things came out of the chaotic period of Reconstruction. The South actually was
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