Eric Foner
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Eric Foner (7 February 1943 - )
Foner is the son of (names and occupations + siblings if you wish)
High school?
Education
l959-63: Columbia College. B.A., summa cum laude, l963 l963-65: Oriel College, Oxford University. B.A., first class, l965 l965-69: Graduate Faculties, Columbia University. Ph.D., l969
Employment
DeWitt Clinton Professor of History, Columbia University, l988-present; Professor, Department of History, Columbia University, l982-88; Professor, Department of History, City College and Graduate Center, City University of New York, l973-82; Pitt Professor of American History and Institutions, Cambridge University, l980-8l; Fulbright Professor of American History, Moscow State University, Spring l990; Harmsworth Professor of American History, Oxford University, 1993-94; Leverhulme Visiting Scholar, Queen Mary, University of London, Spring 2008.
Awards, Fellowships, Honors
American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship, l972-73 Guggenheim Fellowship, l975-76 National Endowment for the Humanities Senior Fellowships, l982-83, 1996-97 Prizes for Reconstruction: Los Angeles Times Book Award for History; Bancroft Prize; Parkman Prize; Lionel Trilling Award; Owsley Prize. Finalist, National Book Award; Finalist, National Book Critics' Circle Award; Outstanding Reference Book, New York Public Library; and Library Journal, for Reader's Companion to American History; Awards for A House Divided exhibition, Chicago Historical Society: Lawrence W. Towner Award, Illinois Humanities Council; James Harvey Robinson Prize; AHA Award of Merit; American Association for State and Local History, for America's Reconstruction exhibition; Elected member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, l989; Great Teacher Award, Society of Columbia Graduates, 1991; President, Organization of American Historians, 1993-94; Scholar of the Year, N. Y. Council for the Humanities, 1995; Elected Corresponding Fellow, British Academy, 1996; President, American Historical Association, 2000; Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters, Iona College, 2002; First Place, Electronic Product of 2003, for Columbia American History Online, Association of American Publishers; Class of 2006 Distinguished Professor Award, April 2004; Featured in History Today, January 2000, 26-29 Featured in Current Biography, August 2004, 50-55; Silver Gavel Award, American Bar Association, 2005 for "Brown at Fifty," special issue, The Nation, ed. Eric Foner and Randall Kennedy Kidger Award for Excellence in Teaching and Scholarship, New England History Teachers Association, 2006; Presidential Award for Outstanding Teaching, Columbia Univerity, 2006; President, Society of American Historians, 2006-07; John Jay Award for Distinguished Professional Achievement, Columbia College; Alumni Association, 2007; Order of Lincoln, Lincoln Academy of Illinois, 2009.
Books
Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party Before the Civil War (Oxford University Press, l970; rep. with new preface, 1995)
America's Black Past: A Reader in Afro-American History (Harper and Row, l97l)
Nat Turner (Prentice-Hall, l97l)
Tom Paine and Revolutionary America (Oxford University Press, l976; rep with new preface, 2005)
Politics and Ideology in the Age of the Civil War (Oxford University Press, l980)
Nothing But Freedom: Emancipation and Its Legacy (Louisiana State University Press, l983)
Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution l863-l877 (New American Nation series, Harper and Row, l988)
A Short History of Reconstruction (Harper and Row, l990)
A House Divided: America in the Age of Lincoln (W. W. Norton, l990) (with Olivia Mahoney)
The New American History (editor) (Temple University Press, l990; revised and expanded edition, 1997)
Reader's Companion to American History (editor, with John A. Garraty) (Houghton- Mifflin, 1991)
Freedom's Lawmakers: A Directory of Black Officeholders During Reconstruction (Oxford University Press, 1993; revised edition, LSU Press, 1996)
Thomas Paine (Library of America, 1995)
America's Reconstruction: People and Politics after the Civil War (HarperCollins,1995) (with Olivia Mahoney)
The Story of American Freedom (W. W. Norton, 1998)
Dance for a City: Fifty Years of the New York City Ballet (editor, with Lynn Garafola) (Columbia University Press, 1999)
Who Owns History? Rethinking the Past in a Changing World (Hill and Wang, 2002)
Give Me Liberty! An American History (Norton, 2004)
Voices of Freedom: A Documentary History (Norton, 2004)
Forever Free: The Story of Emancipation and Reconstruction (Knopf, 2005)
Our Lincoln: New Perspectives on Lincoln and His World (editor) (Norton, 2009)
Other Activities
Articles, essays and book reviews in numerous academic and popular journals, magazines, and newspapers. Op-eds, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post Co-Curator, A House Divided exhibit, Chicago Historical Society, and America's Reconstruction, traveling exhibition, originating at Virginia Historical Society Rewrote Hall of Presidents presentation, Disney World, 1993 Editorial Boards: Past and Present, and The Nation Historical Consultant, The Civil War, Broadway musical, 1999
Dr. Foner is married to Lynn Garafola, a professor of dance at Barnard College and dance critic, historian, and curator. They have one daughter. Previously, he was married to screenwriter Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal. He lives in New York City
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