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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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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 (/ 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 ...
Eric Foner: American Historian. Numerous lectures by Eric Foner are available on YouTube and via his online lecture course (MOOC) on the coming of the Civil War, the war itself, and Reconstruction. See the home page of this site for links to the course.
Eric Foner is the DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University, and one of the country’s most prominent historians.
Eric Foner. Professor Foner specializes in the Civil War and Reconstruction, slavery, and 19th-century America. He has written and edited nineteen books about American history, including The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery, which won the Pulitzer, Bancroft, and Lincoln prizes in 2011.
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 ...
