Eric Foner

Eric Foner ( born February 7, 1943 in New York City ) is an American historian, known for work on the Reconstruction era after the Civil War. He is DeWitt Clinton Professor at Columbia University.

Foner initially studied physics at Columbia University, then moved on to history with a bachelor 's degree in 1963. Then he went to Oriel College, University of Oxford, where in 1965 he made ​​another BA. In 1969 he earned his doctorate under Richard Hofstadter at Columbia University. In 1973 he became a professor at the City College of New York and 1982 at Columbia University.

He was a visiting professor at Cambridge ( Pitt Professor 1980), Oxford ( Harmsworth Professor ), Princeton (1976 /77), at the University of London (Queen Mary College ) and at the Lomonosov University. He was president of the Organization of American Historians (1993 /94) and the American Historical Association ( 2000).

In 1989 he was awarded the Bancroft Prize for his book Reconstruction. In 2000 he was president of the American Historical Association. For his book The Fiery Trial on the recruitment of Abraham Lincoln on slavery in the course of his life he received the 2011 Pulitzer Prize, the Bancroft Prize and the Lincoln Prize.

He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the British Academy. Foner is more honorary doctorates ( Iona College, Queen Mary College (London), State University of New York). He is the historian Lynn Garafola dance (Professor at Barnard College, Columbia University), married and has one child. In his first marriage he was married to Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal.

His father was the historian Jack D. Foner (1910-1999), who left because of sympathy (and because he too much to African American history taught ) was mixed with 40 others at the City College of New York in 1941 released (a consequence of the Rapp - Coudert Committee ). He was on a blacklist and could only in 1969 at Colby College regain a professorship. In between, he entertained himself and his family as an entertainer and drummer (he played with Harry Belafonte and Paul Robeson ). Among his works Blacks and the Military in American History is one (1974).

Writings

  • Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877. New York: Harper & Row, 1988 (the book was awarded the Bancroft, Francis Parkman, Lionel Trilling, Avery O. Craven Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Award), abridged edition Harper and Row, 1990
  • The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery, WW Norton 2010
  • Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party Before the Civil War, Oxford UP 1995
  • America's Black Past: A Reader in Afro - American History, Harper and Row 1970
  • Nat Turner, Prentice- Hall 1971
  • Tom Paine and Revolutionary America | year, Oxford UP 1976
  • Politics and Ideology in the Age of the Civil War, Oxford UP 1980
  • Nothing but Freedom: Emancipation and Its Legacy, Louisiana State University Press 1983
  • With Olivia Mahoney: A House Divided: America in the Age of Lincoln, Chicago Historical Society, 1990 ( exhibition)
  • Published by John A. Garraty with: The Reader's Companion to American History, Houghton Mifflin, Boston 1991
  • The Tocsin of Freedom: The Black Leadership of Radical Reconstruction, Gettysburg College 1992
  • Slavery and Freedom in Nineteenth - Century America, Oxford UP 1994
  • With Olivia Mahoney: America's Reconstruction: People and Politics After the Civil War, Harper Perennial 1995 ( exhibition Virginia Historical Society )
  • The New American History, Temple University Press 1997
  • The Story of American Freedom, W. W. Norton 1998
  • Who Owns History: Rethinking the Past in a Changing World, New York: Hill and Wang 2002
  • Give Me Liberty: An American History, WW Norton 2004 together with the collection of documents: Voices of Freedom: A Documentary History, 2 volumes
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