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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.
Besides his influential scholarship, he has also been an indispensable political commentator, and many of his most important contributions to the Nation magazine appear in his latest book, “...
Jan 21, 2021 · What Reconstruction teaches us about white nationalism today. Historian Eric Foner on the long tradition of white nationalists clashing with Black people exercising their rights. by Fabiola...
Jun 5, 2020 · It was about the post-Civil War period and the political resistance, particularly from Southern states, to the newly adopted constitutional amendments abolishing slavery and guaranteeing racial...
Dec 2, 2019 · In his next major work on the Civil War era, Foner examines our greatest president’s struggle throughout his political career with the question of how to bring about black freedom.
Professor Foner's publications have concentrated on the intersections of intellectual, political and social history, and the history of American race relations.
Sep 18, 2019 · Foner wrote this important book to show how these competing views of Reconstruction and the Civil War amendments have shaped incompatible interpretations of the Constitution.
Apr 18, 2017 · Donald Trump accepted the presidential nomination of the party whose origins Eric Foner chronicled in his first book, Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men (1970), I met with the distinguished...
Foner's most important books have transformed the way we see — and the way we teach — the origins of the Civil War, the significance of slave emancipation, and the politics of postwar Reconstruction. Foner grew up in a New York family equally devoted to historical scholarship and left-wing politics.
Freedom's Song. from The Nation -- April 6, 2015 (150th anniversary issue) From The Nation's very inception, the idea of freedom has been fundamental to its political outlook. Of course, freedom (along with its twin, liberty) has long occupied a central place in Americans' political vocabulary.
