By Eric Foner. A collection of the author’s recent reviews and commentaries from slavery and antislavery, through the disunion and remaking of the United States in the nineteenth century, Jim Crow and the civil rights movement, and into current politics. Examines figures from Washington to Lincoln, Douglass, and Rosa Parks, pivotal events such as the Fugitive Slave Act and the Tulsa Race Massacre, topics such as the fragility of constitutional guarantees to civil liberties, due process, and birthright citizenship as well as recent controversies over how to commemorate, and how to teach, history. Read more.