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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 ...
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.
Dec 2, 2019 · (Library of Congress) Every great historian revises history in his or her own way. Eric Hobsbawm replaced narratives about the making of the modern world that focused relentlessly on the...
Jan 9, 2006 · Historian Eric Foner analyzes the fate of those promises in Forever Free: The Story of Emancipation and Reconstruction.
- Terry Gross
Jan 1, 2000 · Eric Foner was Harmsworth Professor of American History at Oxford a few years ago, when he was invited to take tea with Isaiah Berlin and told his little daughter that he was going to meet a famous philosopher.
Eric Foner* Beginning in the 1 930s , Reconstruction historiography underwent a dramatic change. Early-twentieth-century historians of Reconstruction viewed aggressive federal intervention to protect the civil ňghts of freed slaves as a mistake , and they celebrated the Compromise of 1877 and the subsequent retreat from Reconstruction.
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Jun 5, 2020 · After the Civil War, the federal government promised former slaves equality and citizenship. Historian Eric Foner says the failed promises reverberate today. Originally broadcast Jan. 9, 2006.
