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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 ...
Jun 1, 2011 · Eric Foner has now written the best one yet published on the critically important subject identified in its subtitle: Lincoln's views about and actions regarding chattel slavery in the United States. Aimed at a general audience, the book is clearly and accessibly written, shrewd and nuanced in argumentation, and filled with invaluable detail ...
- Bruce Levine
- 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.
Dec 1, 2000 · Eric Foner’s career as a historian, poised at midstream, has already achieved the kind of greatness that eludes many over a lifetime. He is the author of 14 books, over 100 articles and essays, and numerous reviews, and is the editor of innumerable volumes.
Read articles and watch lectures by Eric Foner, DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University.
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.
Nov 14, 2006 · Drawing on a wide range of long-neglected documents, Eric Foner places a new emphasis on black experiences and roles during the era. We see African Americans as active agents in overthrowing...
