Eric Foner, DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University, is one of this current nation's most unmistakable antiquarians. He got his doctoral degree at Columbia under the supervision of Richard Hofstadter. He is one of just two people to fill in as leader of the three noteworthy expert associations: the Organization of American Historians, American Historical Association, and Society of American Historians, and one of a bunch to have won the Bancroft and Pulitzer Prizes around the same time.
Educator Foner's distributions have focused on the crossing points of scholarly, political and social history, and the historical backdrop of American race relations. His best-known books are: Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: Re-evaluating the Past in a Changing World (2002); his overview course book of American history, Give Me Liberty! An American History (2004); The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery (2010) (champ, among different honors, of the Bancroft Prize, Pulitzer Prize for History, and The Lincoln Prize); and Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad, ( 2015) (victor of the American History Book Prize by the New-York Historical Society. His most recent book, Battles for Freedom: The Use and Abuse of American History (2017), is an accumulation of expositions from The Nation magazine. His books have been converted into Chinese, Korean, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, and Spanish.
In 2014 he was granted the Gold Medal by the National Institute of Social Sciences. He is a chosen individual of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the British Academy, and has been granted privileged degrees by Iona College, Queen Mary University of London, the State University of New York, Dartmouth College, Lehigh University, and Princeton University. He serves on the article loads up of Past and Present and The Nation, and has composed for the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, London Review of Books, and numerous different distributions, and has showed up on various TV and radio shows, including Charlie Rose, Book Notes, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, The Colbert Report, Bill Moyers Journal, Fresh Air, and All Things Considered, and in chronicled documentaries on PBS and the History Channel. He was the on-camera student of history for "Flexibility: A History of Us," on PBS in 2003. He has addressed widely to both scholastic and non-scholarly groups of onlookers.
Foner's works have been profoundly adulated in insightful diaries and by surveys in periodicals over the political range. The prologue to an ongoing accumulation of expositions on the Civil War period alludes to Reconstruction as "one of the masterworks of the verifiable calling." Robert H. Ferrell, in the National Review announced that The Story of American Freedom "approaches splendor." Of The Fiery Trial, Gordon Berg saw in Civil War Times, "searching for defects in an Eric Foner book resembles searching for imperfections in the Hope Diamond; it is a waste of time." In the Los Angeles Times, Wendy Smith composed of Gateway to Freedom, "mentally examining and sincerely thunderous, [it] advises us that history can be as blending as the most holding fiction."
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