Eric Foner

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Eric Foner (born February 7, 1943 in New York City) is an American historian. He has been a faculty member in the department of history at Columbia University since 1982 and writes extensively on political history, the history of freedom, the early history of the Republican Party, African American biography, Reconstruction, and historiography. Foner is considered the leading contemporary historian of the post-Civil War Reconstruction period. <p>Appointed the Dewitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University, Foner specializes in nineteenth century American history, the American Civil War, slavery, and Reconstruction. He served as president of the Organization of American Historians in (1993-94), and, in 2000, was president of the American Historical Association. <p>From 1973-1982, he served as a Professor in the Department of History at City College and Graduate Center at City University of New York. <p>Foner earned his B.A., summa cum laude, from Columbia University in 1963, a...