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Who owns history?
rethinking the past in a changing world
By Foner, Eric
- ISBN
- 978-0-80909-704-3
- Publisher
- New York : Hill and Wang, 2002.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on March 15, 2002
Each individual has a vested interest in knowing the past because the past is in everyone. However, "everyone and no one" owns the past and "the study of the past is a constantly evolving, never-ending journey of discovery," states Foner (history, Columbia Univ.), author of Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution and other respected titles on American history. In nine readable essays written between 1983 and 2001 and grouped in three secti...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
