The Story of American Freedom: 1776-2005 by Eric Foner on Free Online Video

Although the idea of freedom is nearly ubiquitous in American public discourse вЂ” and perhaps no more so than today вЂ” it has been subject to a remarkable degree of flux over the course of the nation's history. This country was founded with the rhetoric of freedom, but was also a slave society. Slave owners insisted that slavery was the real foundation of freedom, because a free individual was a person who was autonomous, not reliant on others for their economic livelihood. Owning a slave enhanced one's freedom. Foner believes that battles "at the boundaries of freedom," by African Americans and other racial minorities, women and workers, "have deepened and extended the meaning of freedom into more areas of life." After the nation accepted the 14th amendment вЂ” "a nonracial idea of freedom" -- the next battle coalesced around economic freedom. Now globalization and terrorism challenge our notions of freedom. Foner deplores the current administration's belief in a single sustainable model of freedom. This chauvinism, he believes, violates the very notion of an open society, and paves the way for restricting freedoms at home. Watch this video to get an understanding of what America is and was like.

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