Who Owns History?: Rethinking the Past in a Changing World
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Eric Foner's Who Owns History? is a wide-ranging collection of short essays on a variety of topics – Foner’s own development as a historian, the influence of his mentor Richard Hofstadter, why socialism has (rarely) appeared in the United States, and the shortcomings of popular historical accounts such as Ken Burns’s The Civil War TV series.