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Eric Foner
Eric Foner (born February 7, 1943) 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 post-Civil War Reconstruction period, having published ''Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877'' (1988), winner of many prizes for history writing, and more than 10 other books on the topic.〔Perman, Michael. "Eric Foner's Reconstruction: A Finished Revolution". ''Reviews in American History,'' Vol. 17, No. 1. (Mar., 1989), pp. 73-78.〕 His free online courses on "The Civil War and Reconstruction," published in 2014, are available from Columbia University on ColumbiaX.〔https://www.edx.org/course/civil-war-reconstruction-1865-1890-columbiax-hist1-3x#.VLlCy2TF-0c〕
In 2011 Foner's ''The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery'' (2010) won the Pulitzer Prize for History, Lincoln Prize, and the Bancroft Prize.〔http://newswire.ascribe.org/cgi-bin/behold.pl?ascribeid=20110210.071303&time=02%2000%20PST&year=2011&public=0〕 Foner also won the Bancroft in 1989 for his book ''Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution''. In 2000, he was elected president of the American Historical Association.〔(Foner's presidential speech to the American Historical Association, titled "Freedom in a Global Age" )〕
==Early life and education==
Foner was born in New York City, New York, the son of Liza (née Kraitz), a high school art teacher, and historian Jack D. Foner, a historian 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,
deprived of his livelihood while I was growing up, he supported our family as a freelance lecturer... . Listening to his lectures, I came to appreciate how present concerns can be illuminated by the study of the past—how the repression of the McCarthy era recalled the days of the Alien and Sedition Acts, the civil rights movement needed to be viewed in light of the great struggles of Black and White abolitionists, and in the brutal suppression of the Philippine insurrection at the turn of the century could be found the antecedents of American intervention in Vietnam. I also imbibed a way of thinking about the past in which visionaries and underdogs—Tom Paine, Wendell Phillips, Eugene V. Debs, and W. E. B. Du Bois—were as central to the historical drama as presidents and captains of industry, and how a commitment to social justice could infuse one's attitudes towards the past.〔Jon Wiener, ("In Memoriam: Jack D. Foner." ''Perspectives'' (April 2000) - American Historical Association )〕
Foner went to Columbia University for his B.A.; he was majoring in physics until he took a year-long seminar with James P. Shenton on the Civil War and Reconstruction his junior year. "It probably determined that most of my career has been focused on that period," he recalled years later.〔Eric Watkin, ("Professor James P. Shenton '49: History's Happy Warrior," ''Columbia College Today'' 22:3 (Summer 1996) )〕 A year later, in 1963, he graduated ''summa cum laude'' as a history major. He studied at Oxford as a Kellett Fellow; he received a B.A. from Oriel College in 1965. Foner returned to Columbia for his Ph.D, where he worked under Richard Hofstadter; he finished in 1969.
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