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Eric Foner: Freedom in America 1776 - 2008

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Partner:: Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Location:: University of Sydney
Sydney, Australia
Event Date:: 06.03.08
Speaker:: Eric Foner
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Summary: In this exclusive Sydney lecture, Professor Eric Foner, DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University, will trace how Americans have thought about the key concept of freedom through the course of history.

He argues that freedom has never been a single idea, but has been the source of considerable disagreement and conflict - University of Sydney

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Eric Foner

Eric Foner, DeWitt Clinton Professor of History, specializes in the Civil War and Reconstruction, slavery, and 19th-century America. He received his B.A. from Columbia in 1963 and his Ph.D. from Columbia in 1969. His publications include Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party Before the Civil War (1970), Tom Paine and Revolutionary America (1976), Politics and Ideology in the Age of the Civil War (1980), Nothing But Freedom: Emancipation and Its Legacy (1983), Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877 (1988), Freedom's Lawmakers: A Directory of Black Officeholders During Reconstruction (1993), and The Story of American Freedom (1998). In 2000, he served as President of the American Historical Association.

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01 hr 30 min 51 sec

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01.: Moderator Introduction

03 min 21 sec

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02.: Eric Foner: History of Freedom

02 min 04 sec

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03.: The Freedom Train

06 min 23 sec

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04.: Definition of Freedom

03 min 43 sec

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05.: Boundaries of Freedom

03 min 01 sec

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06.: The American Revolution: Empire of Liberty

01 min 56 sec

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07.: Contradiction of Freedom: Slavery

02 min 10 sec

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08.: The New Deal: Social Conditions of Freedom

04 min 33 sec

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09.: Civil Liberties: Relational Freedom

04 min 24 sec

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10.: WWII: Civil Rights Movement Begins

02 min 26 sec

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11.: Cold War: Consumer Freedom

06 min 52 sec

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12.: 9/11 Aftermath: A Single Model of Freedom

02 min 50 sec

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13.: Balance Between Freedom and Security

05 min 06 sec

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14.: History Should Transcend Boundaries

02 min 54 sec

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15.: Q & A

00 min 33 sec

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16.: Q1: Pre-American Freedom

01 min 57 sec

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17.: Q2: The Paranoid Style

02 min 39 sec

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18.: Q3: Degrees of Freedom

04 min 53 sec

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19.: Q4: Freedom vs. Equality

02 min 48 sec

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20.: Q5: Civil Rights Starting During WWII

03 min 53 sec

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21.: Q6: Birth of A Nation: Role of Cinema in Mythmaking

04 min 44 sec

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22.: Q7: Obama and Reinventing Historical Myths

02 min 03 sec

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23.: Q8: French Revolution

03 min 52 sec

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24.: Q9: Hoffstetter's View of Neoconservatives

03 min 12 sec

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25.: Q10: Why There is No Socialism in US

03 min 26 sec

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26.: Q11: Christian Freedom

04 min 57 sec

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Eric Foner: Morality & Capitalism are Mutually Exclusive

03 min 54 sec

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Eric Foner: 9/11 Wrongly Defined American Freedom

03 min 21 sec

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

02 min 56 sec

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Encyclopædia Britannica Article

civil liberty: Freedom from arbitrary interference in one's pursuits by individuals or by government. The term is usually used in the plural. Civil liberties are protected explicitly in the constitutions of most democratic countries. (In authoritarian countries, civil liberties are often formally guaranteed in a constitution but ignored in practice.) In the U.S., civil liberties are guaranteed by the Bill of Rights and the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the Constitution of the United States. The Constitution's 13th Amendment prohibits slavery and involuntary servitude; the 14th bars the application of any law that would abridge the “privileges and immunities” of U.S. citizens or deprive any person of “life, liberty, or property…without due process of law” or deny any person equal protection under the law; and the 15th guarantees the right of all U.S. citizens to vote. The related term civil right is often used to refer to one or more of these liberties or indirectly to the obligation of government to protect certain classes of people from violations of one or more of their civil liberties (e.g., the obligation to protect racial minorities from discrimination on the basis of race). In the U.S., civil rights are protected by the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and subsequent legislation. See also American Civil Liberties Union.; civil liberty on britannica.com

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Posted: 08.18.08, 07:32 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

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