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Oxford University Press published Freedom from Fear as part of the Oxford History of the United States in May 1999. [13] The book is 954 pages long, [14] and it weighs approximately six pounds. [15] There are 24 maps of battles, [16] 48 halftone images, [17] a bibliographic essay, [18] and a 59-page index. [19]
The Oxford History of the United States book series originated in the 1950s with a plan laid out by historians C. Vann Woodward and Richard Hofstadter for a multivolume history of the United States published by Oxford University Press, modeled on the Oxford History of England, that would provide a summary of the political, social, and cultural history of the United States for a general ...
Freedom from fear is listed as a fundamental human right according to The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted in 1948. On January 6, 1941, United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt called it one of the " Four Freedoms " at his State of the Union , which was afterwards therefore referred to as the "Four Freedoms speech". [ 1 ]
The four freedoms: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the evolution of an American idea (Oxford University Press, 2015); argues that Roosevelt's speech left a deep imprint in America, but the society largely failed to achieve his vision of freedom, p. 7.
Freedom and Destiny; Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929–1945; Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice; The Oxford History of the French Revolution; Frozen Fire (novel) Frozen in Time (novel)
Freedom from Fear (1999) David Michael Kennedy (born July 22, 1941) is an American historian specializing in American history . He is the Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History Emeritus at Stanford University [ 2 ] and the former director of the Bill Lane Center for the American West.
Grace Forrest, the founding director of Walk Free, was honored with this year’s “Freedom from Fear” award by the Roosevelt Foundation. Australian abolitionist, Grace Forrest, receives ...
Judith Shklar was born as Judita Nisse (Latvian: Judīte Nise Šklāra) in Riga, Latvia, to Jewish Latvian parents. [1] [2] Because of persecution during World War II, her family fled Europe via Japan to the US and finally to Canada in 1941, when she was thirteen.