GIVE ME LIBERTY!

The leading U.S. history textbook, with a new focus on "Who is an American?"

A powerful text by an acclaimed historian, Give Me Liberty! delivers an authoritative, concise, and integrated American history. In the Sixth Edition, Eric Foner addresses a question that has motivated, divided, and stirred passionate debates: "Who is an American?" With new coverage of issues of inclusion and exclusion - reinforced by new primary source features in the text and a new secondary source tutorial online - Give Me Liberty! strengthens students' most important historical thinking skills. Eric Foner is the author of many award-winning books on the Civil War and Reconstruction, including The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery, winner of the Pulitzer Prize. He is DeWitt Clinton Professor Emeritus of History at Columbia University.