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Jun 18, 2021 · Historian Eric Foner talks with student Karina Macosko about how he became one of the most influential historians of our time. He shares how growing up during the Civil Rights movement inspired him to study the history of anti-slavery, and eventually write his books about the civil war era.
Eric Foner is DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University. He received his doctoral degree at Columbia under the supervision of Richard Hofstadter.
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Ph.D. — Columbia University, 1969 B.A. First Class — Oriel College, Oxford University, 1965 B.A. — Columbia College, 1963
Eric Foner, DeWitt Clinton Professor Emeritus of History, specializes in the Civil War and Reconstruction, slavery, and 19th-century America. He is one of only two persons to serve as President of the Organization of American Historians, American Historical Association, and Society of American Historians. He has also been the curator of several mus...
The Radical Tradition in AmericaThe US in the Era of Slavery and Jacksonian DemocracyThe US in the Era of Civil War and ReconstructionSlavery and Emancipation SeniorPultizer Prize in History, 2011Bancroft Prize, 2011Lincoln Prize, 2011Festschrift in honor of Eric Foner: Contested Democracy: Freedom, Race, and Power in American History, 2007President, Society of American Historians, 2006President, American Historical Association, 2000Elected Corresponding Fellow, British Academy, 1996President, Organization of American Historians, 1993-94Eric Foner (/ ˈ f oʊ n ər /; 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. He is one of only two persons to serve as president of the three major professional organizations: the Organization of ...
Eric Foner is the DeWitt Clinton Professor Emeritus of History at Columbia University, specializing in the Civil War and Reconstruction, slavery, and nineteenth-century America. He received his B.A. in History from Columbia College in 1963, his B.A.
Eric Foner, a winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the Bancroft Prize, and the Francis Parkman Prize, is the DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
