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Biography
Education
Ph.D. – Columbia University 1969
B.A. First Class – Oriel College, Oxford University 1965
B.A. – Columbia College 1963
Current Departmental Service
US Area Chair
Personnel Committee
Interests and Research
Eric Foner, DeWitt Clinton Professor 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. 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 currently working on a book, "The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery."
Affiliations
President, Society of American Historians, 2006
President, American Historical Association, 2000
Elected Corresponding Fellow, British Academy, 1996
President, Organization of American Historians, 1993-94
Elected member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, l989
Teaching
Courses
The Radical Tradition in America
The US in the Era of Slavery and Jacksonian Democracy
The US in the Era of Civil War and Reconstruction
Slavery and Emancipation
Senior Seminar in History
The Literature of American History
Colloquium on the Civil War and Reconstruction
Awards
Festschrift in honor of Eric Foner: Contested Democracy: Freedom, Race, and Power in American History, 2007
John Jay Award for Distinguished Professional Achievement, Columbia College Alumni Association, 2007
Presidential Award for Outstanding Teaching, Columbia University, 2006
Kidger Award for Teaching and Scholarly Excellence, New England History Teachers Association, 2006
Silver Gavel Award, American Bar Association, 2005
Class of 2006 Distinguished Professor Award, April 2004
First Place, Electronic Product of 2003, Association of American Publishers, for Columbia American History Online
Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters, Iona College, 2002
Scholar of the Year, N. Y. Council for the Humanities, 1995
Selected Publications
Our Lincoln: New Perspectives on Lincoln and His World
Forever Free: The Story of Emancipation and Reconstruction
Voices of Freedom: A Documentary History
Give Me Liberty! An American History
Who Owns History? Rethinking the Past in a Changing World
Dance for a City: Fifty Years of the New York City Ballet
The Story of American Freedom
America's Reconstruction: People and Politics after the Civil War
Thomas Paine
Freedom's Lawmakers: A Directory of Black Officeholders During Reconstruction
A House Divided: America in the Age of Lincoln
A Short History of Reconstruction
Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution 1863-1877
Nothing But Freedom: Emancipation and Its Legacy
Politics and Ideology in the Age of the Civil War
Tom Paine and Revolutionary America
Nat Turner
America's Black Past: A Reader in Afro-American History
Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party Before the Civil War
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