Eric Foner

Author

Bio

Eric Foner is DeWitt Clinton Professor Emeritus of History at Columbia University. In his teaching and scholarship, he focuses on the Civil War and Reconstruction, slavery, and nineteenth-century America. He has served as president of the Organization of American Historians and the American Historical Association. In 2006, he received the Presidential Award for Outstanding Teaching from Columbia University. His most recent books are The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery, winner of the Bancroft and Lincoln Prizes and the Pulitzer Prize for History; Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad, winner of the New York Historical Society Book Prize; and The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution.

Eric Foner Books

The Radical Reader

Timothy Patrick McCarthy

Who Owns History?

Eric Foner

Our Fragile Freedoms

Eric Foner

Lincoln’s Unfinished Work

Orville Vernon Burton

Slavery's Ghost

Richard Follett

At Freedom's Door

James Lowell Underwood

Reconstruction after the Civil War

John Hope Franklin

The Second Founding

Eric Foner

The Reader's Companion to American History

Eric Foner

Beyond Freedom

David W. Blight

A Nation Without Borders

Steven Hahn

Common Sense, The Crisis, & Other Writings from the American Revolution

Thomas Paine

Gateway to Freedom

Eric Foner

A Short History of Reconstruction [Updated Edition]

Eric Foner

Reconstruction Updated Edition

Eric Foner

The Dunning School

John David Smith

Forever Free

Eric Foner

The Civil War in 50 Objects

Harold Holzer

American Empire

Joshua Freeman

The Fiery Trial

Eric Foner