Who Owns History? by Eric Foner
Rethinking the Past in a Changing World
A concise examination of how the past is contested in public life, arguing that debates over monuments, textbooks, museums, and civic rituals reflect deeper struggles over power, identity, and responsibility; the book surveys controversies — especially around slavery, the Civil War, and national origins — to show how politicians, activists, and scholars each try to shape collective memory, and it urges historians to engage publicly with rigorous, evidence-based interpretation while broadening whose stories are told and resisting simplistic or politicized distortions of the past.
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- Published
- 2002
- Nationality
- American
- Length
- Short
- Pages
- 224
- Original Language
- English
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