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Eric Foner
Dewitt Clinton Professor of History
Columbia University
History
URL:
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US Area Chair, Personnel Committee
Biography
Eric Foner
, DeWitt Clinton Professor of History, specializes in the Civil War and Reconstruction, slavery, and 19th-century
America
. He received his B.A. (1963) and Ph.D. (1969) from
Columbia
. His publications include: Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party Before the Civil War (1970); Tom Paine and Revolutionary America (1976); Politics and Ideology in the Age of the Civil War (1980); Nothing But Freedom: Emancipation and Its Legacy (1983); Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution, 1863–1877 (1988); Freedom’s Lawmakers: A Directory of Black Officeholders During Reconstruction (1993); The Story of American Freedom (1998); and most recently the textbook Give Me Liberty!: An American History (2004). 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. 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.
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