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1. www.foreignaffairs.com › reviews › capsule-reviewA Review of "The Second Founding" by Eric Foner - Foreign Affairs

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   Dec 10, 2019 · The book makes constitutional jurisprudence easily accessible to nonlawyers and illuminates the United States’ continuing troubled history of racism. Without shortchanging present-day struggles, Foner’s view of the future is surprisingly hopeful.

2. facingtoday.facinghistory.org › reconstruction"Reconstruction Never Ended": A Review of Eric Foner's Second ...

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   Guest writer Thomas Simpson offers a review of historian Eric Foner's towering new book, The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution. Thomas holds a master's degree in History from Georgetown University and is a core member of Facing History's Marketing and Communications team.

3. www.nytimes.com › 2019/09/18 › booksWhat Reconstruction-Era Laws Can Teach Our Democracy

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   Sep 18, 2019 · “The Second Founding,” by the historian Eric Foner, argues that the radical promise of the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments — all passed after the Civil War — remains unfulfilled today.

4. www.goodreads.com › book › showReconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution 1863-1877

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   Mar 8, 1988 · Eric Foner’s RECONSTRUCTION: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877, is an extraordinarily close look at what Reconstruction was in the United States and why it failed. Foner has taught at Columbia University with a focus on the Civil War, Reconstruction, slavery, and nineteenth-century America.

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5. portside.org › 2017/08/06 › what-im-readingWhat I’m Reading: An Interview with Eric Foner | Portside

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   Aug 6, 2017 · Eric Foner is DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University. He received his doctoral degree at Columbia under the supervision of Richard Hofstadter. He is one of only two persons to serve as president of the three major professional organizations: the Organization of American Historians, American Historical Association, and ...

6. www.nybooks.com › articles › 2024/04/04A ‘Wary Faith’ in the Courts | Eric Foner | The New York ...

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   Apr 4, 2024 · Eric Foner. Eric Foner is the DeWitt Clinton Professor Emeritus of History at Columbia. His books include The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery, which won the Pulitzer Prize for History, and Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution, 1863–1877. (April 2024)

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   Who is Professor Eric Foner?

   • IMAGE: Professor Eric Foner seated in his office at Columbia University in New York, NY (2009). Thomas Simpson is a Digital Marketing Specialist at Facing History and Ourselves. Thomas holds a master's degree in Global, International, and Comparative History from Georgetown University.

   "Reconstruction Never Ended": A Review of Eric Foner's Second Founding

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   Why is Foner able to give an external to the historical context?

   • the lens through which the story of Reconstruction is viewed. For instance, opments during 1867 (p. 281). The next chapter, on the new Reconstruction sessed a greater claim to authority than any in the South's history" (p. 346). role as interpreter become closely identified. Thus, Foner is able to give an external to the historical context.

   Eric Foner's Reconstruction: A Finished Revolution

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   Does Foner portray the black experience during Reconstruction?

   • In fact, in Foner's portrayal of the drama of Reconstruction. on the black experience during Reconstruction. But Foner's Reconstruction, these findings have been assembled. In his hands, moreover, their potential Kenneth Stampp and John Hope Franklin had indicated. very imaginative. The vantage-point of blacks, their perspective, is used as

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   Why did Eric Foner take on the reconstruc- NAL?

   • Eric Foner to take on the assignment. This was an unusual decision because as experts in the field they were asked to cover. At the time, the Reconstruc- had not worked and published. Nevertheless, this New York carpetbagger soon made up for lost time. By 1982, he was contributing the essay on Re- nal's tenth anniversary.

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   Does Foner discuss cleavages?

   • Foner discusses them but tends to reconcile these apparent conflicts, or at least make little of them. Thus, of more significant and deeper cleavages. See pp. 291-307 and 364-92 for the Republicans and pp. 412-44 for the Democrats. 2. Parallel with the author's discussion of the preexistent free labor ideology, there are,

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8. www.jstor.org › stable › 2703129Eric Foner's Reconstruction: A Finished Revolution - JSTOR

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   Revolution, 1863-1877, a massive volume of 690 pages, Foner has established himself as the leading authority on the Reconstruction period. This book is not simply a distillation of the secondary literature; it is a masterly account-broad in scope as well as rich in detail and insight. Foner's rapidly-acquired authority is based on two elements.