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Eric Foner

Born

February 07, 1943

Website

http://www.ericfoner.com/

Genre

History, Nonfiction

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Eric Foner is DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University, where he earned his B.A. and Ph.D. In his teaching and scholarship, Foner focuses on the Civil War and Reconstruction, slavery, and nineteenth-century America. His Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution, 1863–1877, won the Bancroft, Parkman, and Los Angeles Times Book prizes and remains the standard history of the period. His latest book published in 2010 is The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery.

In 2006 Foner received the Presidential Award for Outstanding Teaching at Columbia University. He has served as president of the Organization of American Historians, the American Historical Association, and the Society of American Historians.

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Average rating: 4.08 · 34,468 ratings · 2,944 reviews · 175 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery 4.18 avg rating — 6,641 ratings — published 2010 — 26 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution 1863-1877 by Eric Foner, Richard B. Morris (Introduction), Henry Steele Commager (Introduction) 4.22 avg rating — 6,360 ratings — published 1988 — 51 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution 4.23 avg rating — 2,813 ratings — published 2019	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Short History of Reconstruction, 1863-1877 4.04 avg rating — 2,076 ratings — published 1990 — 24 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Give me liberty!: an American history, volume 1 3.67 avg rating — 1,912 ratings — published 2011 — 173 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party Before the Civil War 4.12 avg rating — 1,418 ratings — published 1971 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad 3.62 avg rating — 1,374 ratings — published 2015 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Forever Free: The Story of Emancipation and Reconstruction 4.17 avg rating — 805 ratings — published 2005 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Story of American Freedom (Norton Paperback) 3.93 avg rating — 740 ratings — published 1977 — 28 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Give me liberty!: an American history 3.56 avg rating — 469 ratings — 76 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Who owns history? Everyone and no one--which is why the study of the past is a constantly evolving, never-ending journey of discovery.”
― Eric Foner, Who Owns History?: Rethinking the Past in a Changing World

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“The problem is that we tend too often to read Lincoln's growth backward, as an unproblematic trajectory toward a predetermined end. This enables scholars to ignore or downplay aspects of Lincoln's beliefs with which they are uncomfortable.”
― Eric Foner, The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery

tags: abraham-lincoln, history-of-the-united-states

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“It is a well known fact that Abraham Lincoln spent much of his spare time visiting wounded soldiers in Union Army hospitals. I've spent thirty years teaching history at Columbia and I don't think I've spent more than fifteen minutes in the freshman dorm. Are we the ones keeping Lincoln's memory alive? Or are we burying it?”
― Eric Foner, Our Lincoln: New Perspectives on Lincoln and His World

tags: college, lincoln

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The Reckoning John Grisham

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Homegoing Yaa Gyasi

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The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery Eric Foner

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Eighty Days: Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland's History-Making Race Around the World Matthew Goodman

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Midnight Dean Koontz

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Fragile Lisa Unger

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Roots: The Saga of an American Family Alex Haley

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Warbreaker Brandon Sanderson

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Moon of the Crusted Snow Waubgeshig Rice

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