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Video: Final Panel of CUNY Abolitionist Conference Catherine Clinton , Eric Foner, James Brewer Stewart, and Sean Wilentz
Here is the final panel from the CUNY The Anti-Slavery Bulwark Conference on the Abolitionists and the coming of the Civil War. The final panel…
Eric Foner in the New York Times on the 150th Anniversary of the Election of the First Black Senator Hiram Revels
Eric Foner has an interesting article in the New York Times today observing the 150th Anniversary of the election of the first African American to…
The Nation Magazine Reviews New Book from Eric Foner on Reconstruction Constitutional Amendments
Historian Michael Kazin has a very favorable review of Eric Foner’s new book The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution….
Historian James Oakes Writes on Recent Works by Eric Foner and Henry Louis Gates
Historian James Oakes writes about recent books, and a PBS documentry from Henry Louis Gates and Eric Foner in this week’s New York Review of…
Eric Foner Interviewed by Ed Ayers about Reconstruction and the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments for Backstory
The radio show Backstory With the History Guys had a good show with historian Ed Ayers interviewing the godfather of modern Reconstruction studies Eric Foner….
Videos from CUNY Conference on Abolitionism
In 2014, the CUNY Graduate Center organized an academic conference on the Abolitionist Movement. Some of the top scholars in the field particpated. The first…
Great Interview With Eric Foner in New Yorker on His New Book
Eric Foner’s new book The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution is due out in a week. The book by…
NY Times Article by Eric Foner on “The Lost Promise of Reconstruction”
The New York Times has an interesting article from historian Eric Foner on The Lost Promise of Reconstruction. From the article: Among the unanticipated consequences…
Would Reconstruction Have Been Different if Lincoln Had Lived? Historians Weigh In
The scholarly journal Civil War History had a Historians Forum on Reconstruction in the September 2015 issue. I want to point to one of the…
Eric Foner on the Impact of the Dunning School on the Understanding of Reconstruction: Videos
Historian Eric Foner’s course on Reconstruction was videoed a few years ago and posted on-line. These segments look at the influence of the Dunning School…
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