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Dec 5, 2019 · In his 1988 work Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution, 1863–1877, Eric Foner drives a final nail into the coffin of outdated interpretations of history. His fascinating account of the decade following the American Civil War shows that black people were an integral part of the movement to end centuries of slavery and were often key drivers of what successes there were in the ...
ISBN. 006091453X. Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877 is a historical non-fiction monograph written by American historian Eric Foner. Its broad focus is the Reconstruction Era in the aftermath of the American Civil War, which consists of the social, political, economic, and cultural changes brought about as consequences ...
Let's get back to Terry's 2006 interview with historian Eric Foner. He has written about America's social and intellectual history since 1970, specializing in the topics of politics and race. When ...
Mar 13, 2018 · February 20, 2018 — Speaking at the Century Association in New York City, historian Eric Foner discusses why Reconstruction remains one of the most crucial a...
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Welcome to this session on the twenty-fifth anniversary of Eric Foner's America 's Unfinished Revolution . This book has been crucially important. rians of the post-Civil War period and for the field of United States. Reconstruction as a historical period is humbling in its complexity, its. sibilities, and its tragedy.
Mar 28, 2015 · Eric Foner is a professor of history at Columbia University and the author of “Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad,” “Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished ...
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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.
