Professor Foner's new, free, online courses on THE CIVIL WAR AND RECONSTRUCTION will be available this academic year, beginning in mid-September, from Columbia University at ColumbiaX. His latest book is Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad. But Adam Fairclough rejects this prevailing view, challenging prominent historians such as Eric Foner and James McPherson. His book, The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery won the Pulitzer, Bancroft, and Lincoln prizes for 2011. Reconstruction: Americas Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877 is a historical non-fiction monograph written by American historian Eric Foner. He has also been the curator of several museum exhibitions, including the prize-winning "A House Divided: America in the Age of Lincoln," at the Chicago Historical Society. was to finally put into the grave the old view of Reconstruction. 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. Eric Foners Reconstruction provides the most comprehensive and in- sightful overview available for a period in American history over which judges and other members of the legal community have wrangled with uncommon ferocity. First Class - Oriel College, Oxford University, 1965Įric Foner, DeWitt Clinton Professor Emeritus of History, specializes in the Civil War and Reconstruction, slavery, and 19th-century America. Watch Eric Foner’s complete talk on Library of America’s YouTube channel.B.A. “Our history is not, as some people like to think, a straight line of greater and greater freedom, greater and greater rights,” he said, “but a much more complicated and much more interesting story of ups and downs, of rights gained, and then lost, that have to be fought for another day.”Įric Foner: One lesson of Reconstruction (1:28)
In his conclusion, Foner touched on Reconstruction’s inescapable relevance to the present moment. Eric Foner on Reconstruction 10,206 views 58 Dislike Share Save House Divided 990 subscribers Historian Eric Foner visited the House Divided Studio in March 2016 and offered. He delivered his talk at an event for Library of America’s new anthology Reconstruction: Voices from America’s First Great Struggle for Racial Equality, a collection of firsthand historical writings edited by Brooks D.
DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University, Foner is the author of Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877 as well as, more recently, Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad (2015), and the editor of the Library of America volume Thomas Paine: Collected Writings.
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