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 University Department of History since 1982. He is the author of several popular textbooks. According to the Open Syllabus Project, Foner is the most frequently cited author on college syllabi for history courses.[1] According to historian Timothy Snyder, Foner is the first to associate the storming of the Capitol on January 6, 2021 with section three of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution.[2]
Foner has published several books on the Reconstruction period, starting with
Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863–1877 in 1988.[3] His online courses on "The Civil War and Reconstruction", published in 2014, are available from Columbia University on ColumbiaX.[4]
In 2011, Foner's The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery (2010) won the Pulitzer Prize for History, the Lincoln Prize, and the Bancroft Prize.[5][6] Foner previously won the Bancroft Prize in 1989 for his book Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution - 1863–1877. In 2000, he was elected president of the American Historical Association.[7] He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2018.[8]
^Authors Archived December 16, 2021, at the Wayback Machine, Open Syllabus.
^Snyder, Timothy, Law or Fear, The Supreme Court Chooses, Thinking about..., Substack, February 7, 2024
^Perman, Michael. "Eric Foner's Reconstruction: A Finished Revolution". Reviews in American History, Vol. 17, No. 1. (March 1989), pp. 73–78.
^"The Civil War and Reconstruction". edX. January 7, 2015. Retrieved June 8, 2016.
^"Prestigious Lincoln Prize goes to Eric Foner". The Washington Post.
^"Historian Foner among 3 winners of Bancroft Prize". Sify. March 28, 2011. Archived from the original on October 20, 2012. Retrieved June 7, 2013.
^"Eric Foner". American Historical Association.
^"Election of New Members at the 2018 Spring Meeting". American Philosophical Society. April 28, 2018.
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realize its liberal ideals of liberty and equality. Scholars such as EricFoner have recently expanded the theme into full-length books. Black abolitionists...
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Crow System"; Konczal, Mike; Foner, Eric (February 3, 2015). "How Radical Change Occurs: An Interview With Historian EricFoner". The Nation. Fitzgerald,...
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his political skills would have helped him avoid Johnson's mistakes. EricFoner argues that: Unlike Sumner and other Radicals, Lincoln did not see Reconstruction...
the Red River or removed for burial, possibly at mass graves. Historian EricFoner described the massacre as the worst instance of racial violence during...
containment by the creation of NATO in 1949.[citation needed] Historian EricFoner writes that the doctrine "set a precedent for American assistance to anticommunist...
ISBN 978-1-56750-782-9. OCLC 547103303. Foner, Eric (1997). Reconstruction. LSU Press. pp. 199–200. ISBN 978-0807122341. Foner 1988, pp. 250–251. Castel, Albert...
Republicans and Democrats was equally notorious." However, historian EricFoner argues there is not sufficient evidence that scalawags were any more or...
Fifty Years of the New York City Ballet. Edited by Lynn Garafola with EricFoner. New York: Columbia University Press. 1999. The Ballets Russes and Its...
throughout Philadelphia. Paine's formulation of "war for an idea" led to, as EricFoner describes it, "a torrent of letters, pamphlets, and broadsides on independence...
ISBN 978-1-56663-739-8. Foner, Eric (2002) [1988]. Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution. New York: HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0-06-093716-4. Foner, Eric (December...
edited by Robert P. Swierenga, 1975. Foner, Eric et al. "Talking Civil War History: A Conversation with EricFoner and James McPherson," Australasian Journal...
Robert Owen (London, Lawrence & Wishart, 1962) Barbara Tucker (1991). EricFoner and John Garraty (ed.). Reader's Companion to American History. Boston:...
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