Books by Philip S. Foner

Against a pre-Civil War backdrop of violence and antagonism, three courageous women, in different parts of the country, undertook to teach black children. Foner and Pacheco's important biographical study portrays three women of unusual courage who deserve to take their places with the many brave women of nineteenth-century America.

?This is the only book-length study of the relationship between black Americans and socialism. Contrary to existing scholarship, which views the relationship as minimal because of the racism of party members, Foner asserts that significant forces in the Socialist party fought racism in the party's ranks... and that socialist ideas and movements exercised an important influence on... black intellectuals and writers.' To support his thesis, Foner highlights such obscure figures as the Reverend George W. Woodbey and better-known black socialists such as A. Philip Randolph.... Foner's work is informative. Recommended.?-Library Journal

This is history as it should be written: massive research and thorough documentation producing a story that tells itself. Recommended for academic history, labor, and Latin American studies collections. Choice Foner's book is primarily valuable as a documentary record. It pays meticulous attention to the labour and socialist press of the time. . . . [A] worthy source of information. Latin America ConnexionsThis noted historian writes in his fluid style about the sometimes contradictory positions taken by the labor unions and socialists in response to American intervention in Central America (long before today's Contras), from the Mexican War of 1846 to the founding of the Pan-American Federation of Labor in 1918.

.,."the overall quality of the book is such that it is a major contribution not only to Black history but also to American history. In fact, Foner's greatest contribution is in his integrity and sensitivity concerning the subject. He has, in this volume, as he did in the previous two, made those who are willing to learn realize that Black history isn't some exotic subject but rather an integral thread in the tapestry of American history."-History: Review of New Books

?Foner's study is exceedingly important. Those who teach the history of the American Revolution will find it a fresh and challenging monograph for their students to read; those who study the Revolution will find it a useful reference point from which to begin new research.?-American Historical Review

"This translation of an American labor study by a 19th-century German Marxist, Friedrich A. Sorge (1828-1906), is valuable as a commentary by someone of Karl Marx's generation on the formation of a major labor movement in the US during the 1890s.... [Of] note are chapters on the judicial and economic constraints of the 1890s, especially as they surfaced in the 1896 presidential campaing. This volume resurrects Sorge from obscurity ... His views on American labor issues provide a valuable perspective. College, university, and large public library collections."-Choice

?We are very much in debt to Foner and the Chamberlins for making Sorge's historical work available.?-Labor Studies Journal

?Covers not only events in America, but also the African heritage, the rise of slavery and the slave trade, slavery and race relations in the Caribbean, and the effect slave revolts there had in America....Foner's study will provide a necessary base for future scholarship.?-Library Journal

?An important work of scholarship that provides the scholarly community with the "basic" documents of the several Democratic-Republican societies. Previously this primary source material was to be found only in the special collections of libraries and historical societies....The bibliography is complete and indispensable. By its very nature this is the definitive work, and it must be acquired by all four-year college and university libraries and by major metropolitan librares.?-Choice