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Eric Foner is DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University, where he earned his B.A. and Ph.D. In his teaching and scholarship, Foner focuses on the Civil War and Reconstruction, slavery, and nineteenth-century America. His Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution, 1863–1877, won the Bancroft, Parkman, and Los Angeles Times Book prizes and remains the standard history of the period. His latest book published in 2010 is The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery. In 2006 Foner received the Presidential Award for Outstanding Teaching at Columbia University. He has served as president of the Organization of American Historians, the American Historical Association, and the Society of American Historians.
1990
People and Politics After the Civil War
1995
2011
The Use and Abuse of American History
2017
The Story of Emancipation and Reconstruction
2005
The Ideology of the Republican Party Before the Civil War
1971
The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad
2015
An American History 2 Volumes
2006
An American History
1940
An American History
2006
An American History, Volume 2
1800
An American History
2004
An American History, One-Volume Edition
1830
An American History
2026
Emancipation and Its Legacy
1983
Essays
2025
New Perspectives on Lincoln and His World
2008
1980
America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877
1988
Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery
2010
1990
1991
How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution
2019
1977
1976
A Documentary History, Vol. 1
2004
A Documentary History
2013
Rethinking the Past in a Changing World
2002