Eric Foner

Foner in 2009 Eric Foner (; 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 the Columbia University Department of History since 1982. He is the author of several popular textbooks, such as the ''Give Me Liberty'' series for high school classrooms. According to the Open Syllabus Project, Foner is the most frequently cited author on college syllabi for history courses. According to historian Timothy Snyder, Foner is the first to associate the storming of the Capitol on January 6, 2021 with section three of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution.

Foner has published several books on the Reconstruction period, starting with ''Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863–1877'' in 1988. His online courses on "The Civil War and Reconstruction", published in 2014, are available from Columbia University on ColumbiaX.

In 2011, Foner's ''The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery'' (2010) won the Pulitzer Prize for History, the Lincoln Prize, and the Bancroft Prize. Foner previously won the Bancroft Prize in 1989 for his book ''Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution - 1863–1877''. In 2000, he was elected president of the American Historical Association. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2018. Provided by Wikipedia
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    Give me liberty! : an American history. Brief volume 2, From 1865 by Foner, Eric, 1943-

    New York : W.W. Norton & Company, 2017
    Brief fifth edition.
    Format: Book

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    Reconstruction : America's unfinished revolution, 1863-1877 by Foner, Eric, 1943-

    New York : Harper & Row, 1988
    First Edition.
    Format: Book


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    Tom Paine and Revolutionary America by Foner, Eric, 1943-

    New York : Oxford University Press, 1976
    Format: Book


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    Nat Turner. by Foner, Eric, 1943-

    Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall, 1971
    Format: Book


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    Nothing but freedom : emancipation and its legacy by Foner, Eric, 1943-

    Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 1983
    Format: Book


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    Gateway to freedom : the hidden history of the underground railroad by Foner, Eric, 1943-

    New York : W.W. Norton & Company, 2015
    First Edition.
    Format: Book


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    Who owns history? : rethinking the past in a changing world by Foner, Eric, 1943-

    New York : Hill and Wang, 2002
    First edition.
    Format: Book


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    Give me liberty! : an American history by Foner, Eric, 1943-

    New York : W.W. Norton & Company, 2020
    Sixth edition.
    Format: Book


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    The fiery trial : Abraham Lincoln and American slavery by Foner, Eric, 1943-

    New York : W.W. Norton & Co., 2010
    First edition.
    Format: Book


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    A short history of Reconstruction, 1863-1877 by Foner, Eric, 1943-

    New York : Harper & Row, 1990
    First edition.
    Format: Book


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    Forever free : the story of emancipation and Reconstruction by Foner, Eric, 1943-

    New York : Knopf, 2005
    1st ed.
    Format: Book


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    Free soil, free labor, free men : the ideology of the Republican Party before the Civil War. by Foner, Eric, 1943-

    New York : Oxford University Press, 1970
    Format: Book


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    The story of American freedom by Foner, Eric, 1943-

    New York : W.W. Norton, 1998
    First edition.
    Format: Book


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    Give me liberty! : an American history by Foner, Eric, 1943-

    New York : W.W. Norton & Company, 2014
    Brief Fourth Edition.
    Format: Book


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    Politics and ideology in the age of the Civil War by Foner, Eric, 1943-

    New York : Oxford University Press, 1980
    Format: Book


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    Give me liberty! : an American history by Foner, Eric, 1943-, DuVal, Kathleen, McGirr, Lisa, 1962-

    New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, 2023
    Seagull seventh edition.
    Format: Book

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    Voices of freedom : a documentary history

    New York : W.W. Norton & Company, 2017
    Fifth edition.
    Other Authors: “…Foner, Eric, 1943-…”
    Format: Book


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    America's black past : a reader in Afro-American history

    New York : Harper & Row, 1970
    [First edition].
    Other Authors: “…Foner, Eric, 1943-…”
    Format: Book