These are fraught times for U.S. history — certain chapters of it, anyway. President Donald Trump recently claimed on his social media platform that the Smithsonian Institution, which includes the ...
Beneficiaries of catastrophe: the English colonies in America / John M. Murrin -- The revolutionary generation: ideology, politics, and culture in the early republic / Linda K. Kerber -- Society, ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Historian Eric Foner has won another prize. Foner's "The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery" is one of three winners of the coveted Bancroft Prize for history. The prize ...
Eric Foner, DeWitt Clinton professor of History at Columbia University, is one of this country's most prominent historians. He received his doctoral degree at Columbia under the supervision of Richard ...
On this episode of Start Making Sense, Bill McKibben explains why solar power makes him optimistic, and Eric Foner talks about Trump and history. Jon Wiener Here's where to find podcasts from The ...
Historian R.J.M. Blackett recently noted the renewed interest in the underground railroad, which he considers “the most clandestine aspect of the antebellum abolitionist movement.” Whereas early ...
Introduction: rethinking the underground railroad -- Slavery and freedom in New York -- The New York Vigilance Committee -- A patchwork system: the underground railroad in the 1840s -- The Fugitive ...
Preface -- Part I : Politics of history and historians -- My life as a historian ; Education of Richard Hofstadter -- Part II : Rethinking history in a changing world -- American freedom in a global ...
Eric Foner, the DeWitt Clinton Professor Emeritus of History at Columbia University, is the author, most recently, of The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution.
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