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  1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Eric_FonerEric Foner - Wikipedia

    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 ...

  2. Dec 2, 2019 · Eric Hobsbawm replaced narratives about the making of the modern world that focused relentlessly on the political games played by powerful men with a rich tapestry of social and economic...

  3. 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.

  4. www.historytoday.com › archive › eric-fonerEric Foner - History Today

    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.

  5. 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.

  6. Jan 9, 2006 · Historian Eric Foner analyzes the fate of those promises in Forever Free: The Story of Emancipation and Reconstruction.

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