埃里克·方纳（Eric Foner）是美国哥伦比亚大学德威特·克林顿历史学讲座教授， 当代美国最有影响力的历史学家之一。自1970年发表《自由土地、自由劳动、自由人：内战前共和党的意识形态》起，方纳在美国内战史、重建史、非裔美国人史、政治文化史等领域内著述甚丰，成就斐然，曾两度获得象征美国史学界最高荣誉的班克罗夫特奖，一次获得普利策奖。其重要著作包括：《汤姆．潘恩与革命时期的美国》（1976）、《美国内战时代的政治与意识形态》（1980）、《除了自由一无所有：黑人解放及其遗产》（1983）、《重建：美利坚未完成的革命（1863-1877）》（1988）、《美国自由的故事》（1998）和《谁拥有历史：在变化的世界中重新思考过去》（2002）、《烈火中的考验：亚伯拉罕·林肯与美国奴隶制》（2010）。方纳是美国艺术与科学院院士和英国皇家科学院通讯院士，并...(展开全部)

The dramatic story of fugitive slaves and the antislavery activists who defied the law to help them reach freedom. More than any other scholar, Eric Foner has influenced our understanding of America's history. Now, making brilliant use of extraordinary evidence, the Pulitzer Prize–winning historian once again reconfigures the national saga of American slavery and freedom. A dee...(展开全部)

The dramatic story of fugitive slaves and the antislavery activists who defied the law to help them reach freedom. More than any other scholar, Eric Foner has influenced our understanding of America's history. Now, making brilliant use of extraordinary evidence, the Pulitzer Prize–winning historian once again reconfigures the national saga of American slavery and freedom. A dee...(展开全部)

Hailed by national leaders as politically diverse as former Vice President Al Gore and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, Generations has been heralded by reviewers as a brilliant, if somewhat unsettling, reassessment of where America is heading. William Strauss and Neil Howe posit the history of America as a succession of generational biographies, beginning in 1584 and enc...(展开全部)

Named by Moscow Times "the History Book of the Year," The Ghost of Freedom combines riveting storytelling with insightful analysis, in the first general history of the modern Caucasus, stretching from the beginning of Russian imperial expansion up to the rise of new countries after the Soviet Union's collapse. In evocative and accessible prose, Charles King reveals how tsars, h...(展开全部)

Steven A. Pomeroy has authored the first history of the American mobile intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), a technology the United States spent four decades and billions of dollars creating but never deployed. An Untaken Road showcases how the evolution of a technology that ultimately never existed and the politics that surrounded it end up significantly shaping America...(展开全部)