Foner, who was active in the trade union movement and the campaign for civil rights for African Americans. Early life and education įoner was born in New York City, New York, the son of Jewish parents, Liza (née Kraitz), a high school art teacher, and historian Jack D. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2018. In 2000, he was elected president of the American Historical Association. Foner previously won the Bancroft Prize in 1989 for his book Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution - 1863-1877.
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. His online courses on "The Civil War and Reconstruction", published in 2014, are available from Columbia University on ColumbiaX. įoner has published several books on the Reconstruction period, starting with Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution - 1863-1877 in 1988. According to the Open Syllabus Project, Foner is the most frequently cited author on college syllabi for history courses. He is the author of several popular textbooks.
He writes extensively on American political history, the history of freedom, the early history of the Republican Party, African American biography, the American Civil War, Reconstruction, and historiography, and has been a member of the faculty at the Columbia University Department of History since 1982.
Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution - 1863-1877 (1988)Įric Foner ( / ˈ f oʊ n ər/ born February 7, 1943) is an American historian.
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