Presents an overview of Paine’s career as political theorist and pamphleteer, and supplies background material to Rights of Man . This book discusses how Paine created a language of modern…

Exhilarating … strikes a balance between the personal and the abstract. -Edward Rothstein, New York Times

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, an authoritative story of the constitutional changes that built equality into America’s foundation.

Making brilliant use of fresh evidence-including the meticulous record of slave rescues secretly kept by Sydney Howard Gay-Eric Foner elevates the underground railroad from folklore to sweeping history.

A collection of the work of Thomas Paine plus letters and prophetic articles.

Foner’s book deals with the factors that brought the North to fight the Civil War. Foner has now written a new introduction that puts his argument in the book into…

Insisting that politics and ideology must remain at the forefront of any examination of nineteenth-century America, Foner reasserts the centrality of the Civil War to the people of that period…

The tale of a Southern black who becomes a congressman during the Reconstruction period that followed the American Civil War. This edition also contains primary source documents from the Reconstruction.