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  1. 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.

  2. 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 ...

  3. Sep 1, 1995 · This article analyzes the tensions and contradictions in nursing home bureaucracies. Bureaucratic rules are essential for administrative efficiency and to reduce the potential for neglect and abuse of patients.

  4. Mar 8, 1988 · Eric Foners 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.

  5. Freedom and Citizenship students might be interested in his open letter to Bernie Sanders and article defending birthright citizenship in The Nation. At Columbia, Dr. Foner teaches the history of the Civil War and Reconstruction, which is now available for free as an online course through ColumbiaX.

  6. Oct 2, 2019 · 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.

  7. Eric Foner was born in New York in 1943. He was educated at Columbia and Oxford Universities and did his PhD at Columbia under the supervision of Richard Hofstadter. Foner is currently DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia, a post he has held since 1988,...