American History Now Quotes

“For Genovese, slave owners' moral commitment to slavery was the foundation of a distinctive worldview that explained secession and the creation of the Confederacy.”
― Eric Foner, American History Now

“In recent years, historians have broken with the essentialist notion of Indians as noble primitives capable of change only as a form of decay. Rejecting that ahistorical fantasy, historians now define "Indianness" as an adaptability that interweaves tradition with innovation in a struggle for cultural survival in a transformed land.”
― Eric Foner, American History Now

“Known as "American exceptionalism," this interpretation casts the colonial period simply as an Anglophone preparation for the United States, defined as a uniquely middle-class society and democracy.”
― Eric Foner, American History Now