In the essay collection “Our Fragile Freedoms,” Eric Foner wades again and again into the biggest debates surrounding human bondage in America. By Zaakir Tameez Zaakir Tameez is a legal scholar of the ...
CounterPunch: The Political, the Personal and the Polemical: Eric Foner on Freedom
insider.si.edu: The second founding how the Civil War and Reconstruction remade the Constitution Eric Foner
The second founding how the Civil War and Reconstruction remade the Constitution Eric Foner
KPFA: Eric Foner is DeWitt Clinton Professor Emeritus of History at Columbia University
We speak with Eric Foner the author of The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution. The Reconstruction amendments abolished slavery, guaranteed all persons due ...
Eric Foner is DeWitt Clinton Professor Emeritus of History at Columbia University
On the C-SPAN Networks: Eric Foner is a Professor Emeritus for History in the Columbia University with 52 videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 1997 Interview as a Professor ...
The New York Times: A Foremost Scholar of Slavery Wonders if America Can Ever Atone
A: Slavery was intimately related to the major trends [and] developments that we associate with American history in the first half of the 19th century. For example, territorial expansion, the westward ...
“The past is the key to the present and the mirror of the future.” — Robert G. Fitzgerald (1840-1919), free African American and a founder of the Freedom Bureau’s schools in North Carolina quoted in ...
True enough. But both Fischer and Foner–historians about as different as they come–have associated themselves with the New-York Historical Society, the oldest museum in New York. I bring this up ...