Authors:Mother Jones, Philip S. Foner, Philip S. Foner,
Publisher: Pathfinder Press
Keywords: working, class, fighter, writings, speeches, jones, speaks, mother
Number of Pages: 934
Published: 1983-01-01
List price: $34.00
ISBN-10: 0873488105
ISBN-13: 9780873488105

From the end of the Civil War until her death in 1930 at the age of 100, Mother Jones was a tireless fighter for the working class. This collection chronicles decades of labor battlesfrom the coalfields of West Virginia to the steel mills of Chicago and the garment shops of New York.Preface by Philip S. Foner, photo, chronology, notes, index.

Author: Philip S. Foner
Publisher: International Publishers
Keywords: states, vol, united, movement, labor, history
Number of Pages: 576
Published: 1979-06
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0717803767
ISBN-13: 9780717803767

Author: Philip S. Foner
Publisher: International Publishers
Keywords: founding, emergence, american, imperialism, vol, states, labor, movement, united, history
Number of Pages: 480
Published: 1975-04
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0717803880
ISBN-13: 9780717803880

Author: Philip S. Foner
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Keywords: speak, panthers, black
Number of Pages: 328
Published: 2002-08-06
List price: $17.50
ISBN-10: 0306812010
ISBN-13: 9780306812019

The first and only collection of the most vital writings of the Black Panther Party. For over three decades, The Black Panthers Speak has represented the most important single source of original material on the Black Panther Party. With cartoons, flyers, and articles by Huey P. Newton, Bobby Seale, and Eldridge Cleaver, this collection endures as an essential part of civil-rights history.

Authors:Professor Nancy Foner, Nancy Foner,
Publisher: Yale University Press
Keywords: waves, immigration, york`s, new, island, jfk, ellis
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2002-02-01
List price: $22.00
ISBN-10: 0300093217
ISBN-13: 9780300093216

Two great waves of immigration, one at the start of the 20th century and another in its final decades, transformed the history and personality of New York City. This in-depth comparison of New York’s two most recent immigration eras reassesses the myths that surround both sets of immigrants.

Author: Eric Foner
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Keywords: seagull, volume, second, history, liberty, american, give
Number of Pages: 696
Published: 2008-09-16
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0393932567
ISBN-13: 9780393932560

Concise, clear, compact, Eric Foner’s brilliant synthesis of American history is the perfect teaching tool for the U.S. survey course. Unlike so many textbooks that overwhelm beginning students with encyclopedic detail, Give Me Liberty! presents the events of American history in a nimble chronological narrative that equips students to understand their significance. It is a textbook that works.

Author: Eric Foner
Publisher: Vintage
Keywords: reconstruction, emancipation, story, free, forever
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2006-11-14
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 0375702741
ISBN-13: 9780375702747

From one of our most distinguished historians comes a groundbreaking new examination of the myths and realities of the period after the Civil War.Drawing on a wide range of long-neglected documents, Eric Foner places a new emphasis on black experiences and roles during the era. We see African Americans as active agents in overthrowing slavery, in shaping Reconstruction, and creating a legacy long obscured and misunderstood. He compellingly refutes long-standing misconceptions of Reconstruction, and shows how the failures of the time sowed the seeds of the Civil Rights struggles of the 1950s a