Battles for Freedom: The Use and Abuse of American History

For almost four decades, Eric Foner, one of America's most distinguished historians, has introduced readers of his journalism to unknown or forgotten characters in American history, methodically unearthing the hidden history of American radicalism. In this collection of polemical pieces, Foner expounds on the relevance of Abraham Lincoln's legacy in the age of Obama and on the need for another era of Reconstruction. In addition to articles in which Foner calls out politicians and the powerful for their abuse and misuse of American history, Foner assesses some of his fellow leading historians of the late 20th century, including Richard Hofstadter, Howard Zinn and Eric Hobsbawm. Foner ends with an open letter to Bernie Sanders analysing the great tradition of radicalism that he has spent his career studying and which, he argues, Americans of progressive disposition should seek to celebrate and retrieve

• Reconstruction Updated Edition: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877 (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)
• The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery
• The Republic for Which It Stands: The United States during Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865-1896 (Oxford History of the United States)
• Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad
• Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America
• No Property in Man: Slavery and Antislavery at the Nation’s Founding (The Nathan I. Huggins Lectures)
• Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
• The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
• Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party before the Civil War
• These Truths: A History of the United States