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Eric Foner: Freedom in America 1776 - 2008

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Eric Foner Traces Civil Rights to WWII Nazi 'Master Race'

02 min 56 sec

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Historian and Columbia Professor Eric Foner traces the Civil Rights Movement to WWII's theory of a master race.

Despite segregation and Japanese internment, Foner believes racism was no longer part of the "intellectually respectable set of ideas" in the U.S. after WWII.
Eric Foner: 9/11 Wrongly Defined American Freedom

03 min 21 sec

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American Historian Eric Foner finds the exclusive American definition of freedom as a direct consequence of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

Foner believes that an officially sanctioned definition of freedom -- as found on the White House's website -- to be an illiberal idea.

True freedom, he says, allows for competing models.
Eric Foner: Morality & Capitalism are Mutually Exclusive

03 min 54 sec

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Historian Eric Foner analyzes the parallel American concepts of natural freedom and Christian freedom.

Foner says, the "right to choose" and "choosing right" form the Republican Party's current paradox.
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qazooz

Posted: 08.18.08, 06:32 AM

one can debate that the"melting pot"had its social adv. it gave boost to matters such as labour wrights,public education and social wellfair.but by the time ethnic matters controled the sceen in the name of "plurality" all thesse issues where diverted to "who gets what" causing a state of instabilty where people think in the best intrest of their own rase not their own homeland