Eric Foner
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Foner at his New York City office in September 2009.
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| Born |
February 7, 1943 New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Education |
Columbia University University of Oxford |
| Spouse(s) |
Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal (divorced) Lynn Garafola |
| Children | 1 |
| Parent(s) | Jack D. Foner, Liza Kraitz |
| Relatives | Philip S. Foner (uncle), Moe Foner (uncle), Henry Foner (uncle) |
| Awards |
Bancroft Prize (1989, 2011) Pulitzer Prize for History (2011) |
Eric Foner (born February 7, 1943) is an American historian. He writes extensively on American political history, the history of freedom, the early history of the Republican Party, African American biography, Reconstruction, and historiography, and has been a member of the faculty at the Columbia University Department of History since 1982. Foner is a leading contemporary historian of the post-Civil War Reconstruction period, having published Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877 in 1989 and more than 10 other books on the topic. His free online courses on "The Civil War and Reconstruction," published in 2014, are available from Columbia University on ColumbiaX.
In 2011 Foner's The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery (2010) won the Pulitzer Prize for History, the Lincoln Prize, and the Bancroft Prize. Foner previously won the Bancroft in 1989 for his book Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877. In 2000, he was elected president of the American Historical Association.
Foner was born in New York City, New York, the son of Liza (née Kraitz), a high school art teacher, and historian Jack D. Foner, who was active in the trade union movement and the campaign for civil rights for African Americans. Eric Foner describes his father as his "first great teacher," and recalls how,
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