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Eric Foner in NYRB Reviews New Book on How Race and Reconstruction Have Been Taught
The New York Review of Books has a review by Eric Foner of Teaching White Supremacy: America’s Democratic Ordeal and the Forging of Our National…
Eric Foner Reviews New Book on How Union Financed the Civil War By Roger Lowenstein
The New York Times has a very favorable review by Eric Foner of a new book on the financing of the Civil War. WAYS AND…
Historians Eric Foner and James Oakes Talk About Lincoln & The Anti-Slavery Constitution
Professor James Oakes of the City University of New York has a conversation with Eric Foner about Abraham Lincoln and the anti-slavery Constitution. Both are…
Eric Foner on the Lessons of Reconstruction Post-January 6th
The New Yorker interviewed historian Eric Foner after the assault on the Capitol last week for his insights into the lessons the Reconstruction Era holds…
Video: “Why Reconstruction Matters” With Henry Louis Gates, Eric Foner, and Kimberly Crenshaw
In October Columbia University did another of its free online Zoom symposiums. Here is the description from Columbia: On October 20, 2020, leading scholars examined…
Randall Kennedy Reviews Eric Foner’s Recent Book on the Reconstruction Amendments in LRB
Legal scholar Randall Kennedy reviews Eric Foner’s new book on the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments in the London Review of Books. Foner’s The Second…
Eric Foner on the Difficult Struggle for Economic Advancement of Freedpeople
Eric Foner was interviewed this weekend by The Hill on lessons from Reconstruction. Foner focuses on why economic advances have been so hard to come…
Columbia University Historians Abolition, the Civil War, Reconstruction & BLM
Columbia University historians Christopher L. Brown, Eric Foner, Stephanie McCurry, and Bailey Yellen held a Zoom meeting this week to discuss the Black Lives Matter…
Podcast: Eric Foner on the “Fake History” of Reconstruction
Ideastream has a twelve minute interview with Eric Foner on Reconstruction which focuses on the damage done by the fake history of the period that…
Eric Foner Reviews New Book on Radical Republicans in The Nation Magazine
Eric Foner reviews LeeAnna Keith’s new book on the Radical Republicans in this week’s The Nation Magazine. The preeminent historian of the Reconstruction Era gives…
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