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1. www.lrb.co.uk › the-paper › v46Eric Foner · In Need of a New Myth: American Myth-Making

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   Eric Foner is DeWitt Clinton Professor Emeritus of History at Columbia and the author of many books on Reconstruction, including The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery (2010), which won the Pulitzer Prize for History in 2011.

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2. 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.

3. academic.oup.com › ahr › articleFrom the Editor’s Desk: 1619 and All That | The American ...

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   Feb 3, 2020 · 2 Eric Foner, The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution (New York, 2019).

4. www.nytimes.com › 1988/05/22 › booksA MOMENT OF TERRIFYING PROMISE - The New York Times

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   May 22, 1988 · Eric Foner, a professor of history at Columbia University, has redrawn the boundaries of the period, using the years 1863-77, in order to include the slaves' efforts to free themselves and...

5. academicinfluence.com › history › eric-foner-karinaInterview with Dr. Eric Foner - Academic Influence

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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.

6. 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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   Who is Eric Foner?

   • This "smart book of enormous strengths" (Boston Globe) has since gone on to become the classic work on the wrenching post-Civil War period -- an era whose legacy reverberates still today in the United States. Eric Foner is DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University, where he earned his B.A. and Ph.D.

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   What did Eric Foner write about the Civil War?

   • ding: How the Civil War and Reconstruct on Remade the C nstitution. By Eric Foner. (New York: W. W. Norton, 2019. Pp. 256. Cloth, $26.95.)In 1988, Eric Foner published one of the most important scholarly works on the po

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   What does Foner say about change?

   • ences are, after all, required to efect change, and change is what Foner is after. A hint of optimism is also required, a basic sense that change is possible. Foner ofers this hint most eloquently in the preface: “As history shows, progre

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   Foner’s inspiring calls for tapping “latent power” (xxix) and developing “alternative jurisprudence” (156), he spends less time than one might expect elaborating new legal possibilities.