

Professor Foner's new, free, online courses on THE CIVIL WAR AND RECONSTRUCTION will be available this academic year, beginning in mid-September, from Columbia University at ColumbiaX. His latest book is Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad. Eric Foners masterful treatment of one of the most complex periods of American history (New Republic) redefined how the post-Civil War period was viewed. Articles have featured research on slavery, abolitionism, women and war, Abraham Lincoln, fiction, national identity, and. His book, The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery won the Pulitzer, Bancroft, and Lincoln prizes for 2011. Civil War History is the foremost scholarly journal of the sectional conflict in the United States, focusing on social, cultural, economic, political, and military issues from antebellum America through Reconstruction. He has also been the curator of several museum exhibitions, including the prize-winning "A House Divided: America in the Age of Lincoln," at the Chicago Historical Society. 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.

First Class - Oriel College, Oxford University, 1965Įric Foner, DeWitt Clinton Professor Emeritus of History, specializes in the Civil War and Reconstruction, slavery, and 19th-century America.


In A Short History of Reconstruction, Eric Foner redefines how the post-Civil War period was viewed. A newly updated, abridged edition of the prize-winning classic work on the post-Civil War period which shaped modern America. His Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution, 18631877, won the Bancroft, Parkman, and Los Angeles Times Bookprizes and remains the standard history of the period. A peoples history view of the Reconstruction era. OL1805097W Page_number_confidence 91.59 Pages 342 Ppi 500 Related-external-id urn:isbn:0062036254 In his teaching and scholarship, Foner focuses on the Civil War and Reconstruction, slavery, and nineteenth-century America. Urn:lcp:shorthistoryofre00eric:epub:e6ce7b9d-fe14-4456-9ffa-56116b598abf Extramarc Duke University Libraries Foldoutcount 0 Identifier shorthistoryofre00eric Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t03x9bd0z Isbn 9780060964313Ġ060964316 Lccn 89045347 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Openlibrary OL2218430M Openlibrary_edition Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 18:16:39 Boxid IA176801 Boxid_2 CH122910 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York Donorīostonpubliclibrary Edition 1st ed.
