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Eric Foner, 2 March 2023 I n American popular memory, the Second World War remains the ‘good war’, fought, to borrow the title of Tom Brokaw’s 1998 book, by the ‘greatest generation’. It is remembered as a time of national unity that not only destroyed tyrannies overseas but assimilated young men from all regions and ethnic backgrounds into a shared American identity.
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.
Read articles and watch lectures by Eric Foner, DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University.
Eric Foner (Nueva York, 1943) es uno de los historiadores estadounidense más prestigiosos. Catedrático de Historia en la Universidad de Columbia y presidente de la Asociación de Historiadores de EE.UU., ha sido profesor invitado en las Universidades de Princeton y Cambridge. Su amplia obra -ha trabajado sobre la historia del partido ...
5 de feb. de 2010 · Emancipation Unfinished in America. Philadelphia Inquirer -- December 6, 2015. Letter to Bernie. The Nation -- November 16, 2015. An American Birthright. The Nation -- September 14/21, 2015. Struggle and Progress: Interview with Eric Foner. Jacobin -- Summer 2015. Warped History: The Roots of Dylan Roof's Racism Go Deep.
Read articles and watch lectures by Eric Foner, DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University. Why Reconstruction Matters from The New York Times-- March 29, 2015. The surrender of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee at Appomattox Court House, 150 years ago next month, effectively ended the Civil War. Preoccupied with the ...
17 de sept. de 2019 · Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Eric Foner talks how the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments relate to current debates about voting rights, mass incarceration and reparations for slavery.
