Description: (American Historian)
Eric Foner is a respected American historian acclaimed for his extensive research in American political history, freedom, the early Republican Party, African American biography, the Civil War, Reconstruction, and historiography. He has been a faculty member at Columbia University since 1982 and is known for his popular textbooks. Foner is frequently referenced in college history courses, particularly for his work on the Reconstruction era. His contributions have earned him prestigious awards, such as the Pulitzer Prize for History and the Bancroft Prize.