Eric Foner
Eric Foner is an American historian. On the faculty of the Department of History at Columbia University since 1982, he writes extensively on political history, the history of freedom, the early history of the Republican Party, African American biography, Reconstruction, and historiography. Foner is the leading contemporary historian of the postCivil War Reconstruction period, having published Reconstruction Americas Unfinished Revolution, 18631877 , winner of many prizes for history writing, and more thanother books on the topic. His free online courses on The Civil War and Reconstruction, published in 2014, are available from Columbia University on ColumbiaX.
Foner was born in New York City, New York, the son of Liza , a high school art teacher, and historian Jack D. Foner, who was active in the trade union movement and the campaign for civil rights for African Americans. Eric Foner describes his father as his first great teacher, and recalls how,
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