How to evaluate Eric Foner's Thesis from Give Me Liberty and Voices of Freedom derived from chapters 9-15?
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**Evaluate Foner’s Thesis (see Give Me Liberty, preface) by drawing evidence from the course (1) to examine how Americans have defined freedom over time AND (2) to explain how the historical context of a given time and place shaped new and multiple meanings of freedom and boundaries of freedom (1800-1877).
**According to Eric Foner in Give Me Liberty, “No idea is more fundamental to Americans’ sense of themselves as individuals and as a nation than freedom. …The very universality of the idea of freedom…can be misleading. Freedom is not a fixed, timeless category with a single unchanging definition. Indeed, the history of the United States is, in part, a story of debates, disagreements, and struggles over freedom. … At various times in our history, it has served as the rallying cry of the powerless and as a justification for the status quo. Freedom helps to bind our culture together and exposes the contradictions between what America claims to be and what it sometimes has been.”
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