Eric Foner
Professional affiliation
Full Biography
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. His most recent book, The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery won the Pulitzer, Bancroft, and Lincoln prizes for 2011.
Major Publications
The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery
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