The leading text in a brief, full-color edition. Clear, concise, integrated, and up-to-date, Give Me Liberty! is a proven success with teachers and students. Eric Foner pulls the pieces of the past together into a cohesive picture, using the theme of freedom throughout. The Brief Fourth Edition is streamlined and coherent, and features stronger coverage of American religion, a bright four-color design, and a reinforced pedagogical program aimed at fostering effective reading and study skills.
Adopted at over 600 universities, colleges, and schools across the country, Eric Foner's Give Me Liberty! is making a difference in the American history survey course.
Give Me Liberty! is the #1 book in the U.S. history survey course because it works in the classroom.
Thomas Paine: Enlightenment, Revolution and the Birth of Modern Nation. New York: Viking, 2006. Peterson, Merrill D. Thomas Jefferson & The New Nation: A Biography. New York: Oxford University Press, 1970.
By this time , however , nearly 4,000 miles of canals had been constructed , creating a network linking the Atlantic states and the Ohio and Mississippi valleys and drastically reducing the cost of transportation .
Give Me Liberty! is the #1 book in the U.S. history survey course because it works in the classroom.
Concise, clear, compact, Eric Foner's brilliant synthesis of American history is the perfect teaching tool for the U.S. survey course.
The leading U.S. history textbook, with a new focus on "Who is an American?"
In the Sixth Edition, Eric Foner addresses a question that has motivated, divided, and stirred passionate debates: ÒWho is an American?Ó With new coverage of issues of inclusion and exclusionÑreinforced by new primary source features in ...
It's 1775 and colonists are enraged by England's taxation. Patrick Henry's words "give me liberty, or give me death" become the sounding call and the American Revolution is about to errupt.
Examines the changing meanings of freedom in America from colonial times to early 21st century.