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Apr 4, 2024 · Most Americans now grasp that violence was essential to the functioning of slavery, but a new book excavates the lesser known brutality of everyday Black life in the Jim Crow South. Eric Foner. Eric Foner is the DeWitt Clinton Professor Emeritus of History at Columbia.
Eric Foner (/ ˈfoʊnər /; born February 7, 1943) is an American historian. He writes extensively on American political history, the history of freedom, the early history of the Republican Party, African American biography, the American Civil War, Reconstruction, and historiography, and has been a member of the faculty at the Columbia ...
E ric Foner, DeWitt Clinton Professor Emeritus of History at Columbia University, is one of this country's most prominent historians. He received his doctoral degree at Columbia under the supervision of Richard Hofstadter.
Eric Foner: American Historian. Numerous lectures by Eric Foner are available on YouTube and via his online lecture course (MOOC) on the coming of the Civil War, the war itself, and Reconstruction. See the home page of this site for links to the course.
Read articles and watch lectures by Eric Foner, DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University.
Eric Foner discusses how passage of the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments reshaped American democracy and how the Reconstruction era continues to influence the modern debate around fundamental rights and their constitutional interpretation.
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Eric Foner is DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University. Foner received his doctoral degree at Columbia under the supervision of Richard Hofstadter. His publications have concentrated on the history of political ideology and race relations in nineteenth-century America.
