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
Lincoln’s Unfinished Work
Orville Vernon BurtonAt Freedom's Door
James Lowell UnderwoodThe Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution
Eric FonerBeyond Freedom
David W. BlightA Nation Without Borders
Steven HahnCommon Sense, The Crisis, & Other Writings from the American Revolution
Thomas PaineGateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad
Eric FonerA Short History of Reconstruction [Updated Edition]
Eric FonerReconstruction Updated Edition
Eric FonerThe Reader's Companion to American History
Eric FonerThe Dunning School
John David SmithThe Civil War in 50 Objects
Harold HolzerReconstruction after the Civil War
John Hope FranklinAmerican Empire
Joshua FreemanSlavery's Ghost
Richard FollettThe Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery
Eric FonerThe Radical Reader
Timothy Patrick McCarthyNothing But Freedom
Eric FonerWho Owns History?
Eric Foner