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Eric Foner

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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

Lincoln’s Unfinished Work book cover

Lincoln’s Unfinished Work

Orville Vernon Burton
At Freedom's Door book cover

At Freedom's Door

James Lowell Underwood
The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution book cover

The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution

Eric Foner
Beyond Freedom book cover

Beyond Freedom

David W. Blight
A Nation Without Borders book cover

A Nation Without Borders

Steven Hahn
Common Sense, The Crisis, & Other Writings from the American Revolution book cover

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

Thomas Paine
Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad book cover

Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad

Eric Foner
A Short History of Reconstruction [Updated Edition] book cover

A Short History of Reconstruction [Updated Edition]

Eric Foner
Reconstruction Updated Edition book cover

Reconstruction Updated Edition

Eric Foner
The Reader's Companion to American History book cover

The Reader's Companion to American History

Eric Foner
The Dunning School book cover

The Dunning School

John David Smith
Forever Free book cover

Forever Free

Eric Foner
The Civil War in 50 Objects book cover

The Civil War in 50 Objects

Harold Holzer
Reconstruction after the Civil War book cover

Reconstruction after the Civil War

John Hope Franklin
American Empire book cover

American Empire

Joshua Freeman
Slavery's Ghost book cover

Slavery's Ghost

Richard Follett
The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery book cover

The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery

Eric Foner
The Radical Reader book cover

The Radical Reader

Timothy Patrick McCarthy
Nothing But Freedom book cover

Nothing But Freedom

Eric Foner
Who Owns History? book cover

Who Owns History?

Eric Foner
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