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Eric Foner (/ ˈ f oʊ n ər /; born February 7, 1943) is an American historian. He writes extensively on American political history , the history of freedom, the early history of the Republican Party , African American biography, the American Civil War , Reconstruction , and historiography , and has been a member of the faculty at ...
He was the on-camera historian for "Freedom: A History of Us," on PBS in 2003 and the chief historical advisor for the award-winning PBS documentary series on Reconstruction and its aftermath broadcast in 2019. He has lectured extensively to both academic and non-academic audiences.
2 de oct. de 2019 · Eric Foner, DeWitt Clinton Professor Emeritus of History, specializes in the Civil War and Reconstruction, slavery, and 19th-century America. He is one of only two persons to serve as President of the Organization of American Historians, American Historical Association, and Society of American Historians.
Biografía de Eric Foner. Historiador americano, Eric Foner es profesor en la Universidad de Columbia, siendo conocido por su labor de investigación sobre la historia política de los Estados Unidos, con especial atención a la época de reconstrucción posterior a la Guerra Civil.
In 1988, Eric Foner published one of the most important scholarly works on the post–Civil War era: Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution, 1863–1877. In 2019, he returned to this period and published a book with a diferent emphasis: The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution.
Eric Foner is DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University. Foner received his doctoral degree at Columbia under the supervision of Richard Hofstadter. His publications have concentrated on the history of political ideology and race relations in nineteenth-century America.
Professor Foner specializes in the Civil War and Reconstruction, slavery, and 19th-century America. He has written and edited nineteen books about American history, including The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery, which won the Pulitzer, Bancroft, and Lincoln prizes in 2011.
