Eric Foner

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Letters From the April 2025 Issue

1 month ago | thenation.com | Eric Foner

Letters / March 11, 2025 Letters From the April 2025 IssueCome gather ’round, people… Constitutional machinations… Executive removal (online only)… Edit Ad Policy This article appears in the April 2025 issue. Come Gather ’Round, PeopleThank you for Daniel Bessner’s thoughtful review of Noam Chomsky and Nathan Robinson’s The Myth of American Idealism [“Empire’s Critic,” February 2025].
Letters From the April 2025 Issue

1 month ago | thenation.com | Eric Foner

Letters / March 11, 2025 Letters From the April 2025 IssueCome gather ’round, people… Constitutional machinations… Executive removal (online only)… Ad Policy This article appears in the April 2025 issue. Come Gather ’Round, PeopleThank you for Daniel Bessner’s thoughtful review of Noam Chomsky and Nathan Robinson’s The Myth of American Idealism [“Empire’s Critic,” February 2025].
America Has Done Mass Deportation Before

Nov 24, 2024 | thenation.com | Eric Foner

November 25, 2024 America Has Done Mass Deportation BeforeFrom the Indian Removal Act of 1830 to the deportation of Mexican-Americans during the Great Depression, Trump can easily find precedents for his policy. None of them ended well.
7 Books About the History of Voting in America

Nov 1, 2024 | electricliterature.com | Alexander Keyssar |Lisa Tetrault |Chana Kai Lee |Eric Foner

Reading Lists The right to participate in a democracy wasn't always available for every citizen Rutherford B.
The US presidential race will be fought over competing definitions of ‘freedom’

Aug 28, 2024 | msn.com | Eric Foner

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In Need of a New Myth

Jun 26, 2024 | lrb.co.uk | Richard S. Slotkin |Eric Foner

It hardly qualifies as news today that the United States, the world’s foremost economic and military power, suffers from a political and cultural malaise. Americans are deeply sceptical of once well-regarded institutions such as universities, the media and the public health system, and do not trust the functioning of democratic politics.
A ‘Wary Faith’ in the Courts

Mar 24, 2024 | portside.org | Eric Foner

A ‘Wary Faith’ in the Courts Published March 24, 2024 Reviewed: Before the Movement: The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights by Dylan C. Penningroth Liveright, 465 pp., $35.00During its heyday in the 1960s the civil rights movement caused deep divisions in American society.
A ‘Wary Faith’ in the Courts | Eric Foner

Mar 14, 2024 | nybooks.com | Eric Foner

During its heyday in the 1960s the civil rights movement caused deep divisions in American society. More recently it has been absorbed into a whiggish narrative of progress in which a system resting on white supremacy was superseded by one that, while hardly perfect, is considerably closer to the ideal of equal justice under law.
Revisiting America’s Most Radical Experiment

Feb 1, 2024 | newyorkfolk.com | James White |Anna Smith |Dara Mathis |Eric Foner

This is an edition of Time-Travel Thursdays, a journey through The Atlantic’s archives to contextualize the present and surface delightful treasures. Sign up here. It’s Black History Month again. And this February is our quadrennial Super Black History Month, where we get a whole extra leap day to squeeze in some bonus Black history. That’s roughly 4 percent more Black history than usual, more than enough time for one sitting of the 1998 NBC miniseries The Temptations.
The Fourteenth Amendment: Annotated

Jan 22, 2024 | daily.jstor.org | Liz Tracey |Joseph James |Eric Foner |Robert J. Kaczorowski

The icon indicates free access to the linked research on JSTOR. On February 8, 2024, the United States Supreme Court will hear arguments in Trump v. Anderson: whether a state (Colorado) can remove a presidential candidate from a primary ballot under Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment to the US Constitution. The former President is appealing the decision of the Colorado Supreme Court that found “Mr. Trump’s actions before and on Jan.