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 ...

The UAB College of Arts and Sciences will commemorate the life and legacy of 16th U.S. President Abraham Lincoln with a week of events Nov. 15-21.The Department of History has invited one of this ...

When Steven Spielberg adapted Doris Kearns Goodwin’s “Team of Rivals” into “Lincoln,” his celebrated 2012 film, he shrewdly compressed the 900-page tome down to one crucial, cinematic episode: the ...

When: Feb. 25, Professor Bruce Ackerman, "Was Trump a symptom of Constitutional Dis-Ease?"; March 4, Professor Stephen Skowronek, "The wayward course of American presidential democracy"; March 16, ...

GREAT BARRINGTON — W.E.B. Du Bois wrote about the past, but could also see into the future, and that more fake history was likely to come. In his book "Black Reconstruction in America," the ...

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. (AP Photo / Cliff Owen) Powered by RedCircle The adventures of older women in America: Ruth Bader Ginsburg, for example, is 86, and Nancy Pelosi just turned ...

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Historian Eric Foner said misconceptions about the Reconstruction era helped uphold white supremacy in the South, and a greater understanding of the period can provide context for the economic demands ...

After the Civil War, the federal government promised former slaves equality and citizenship. Historian Eric Foner says the failed promises... Historian Eric Foner On The 'Unresolved Legacy Of ...

Eric Foner discusses the serious challenges to voting rights, due process, and equal protection under the law. Date Jun 24, 2020 Time 12:00 PM EDT | 9:00 AM PDT Location A dynamic public speaker and ...

Eric Foner—Pulitzer Prize–winning historian, author of Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad (W. W. Norton, 2015), Columbia University professor, and author of more than ...