Eric Foner

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• SOURCE: Balls and Strikes
  10/28/2022
  

  Eric Foner: Originalism and the Color-Blind Constitution are Intellectually Indefensible

  The historian says that Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson was on the right track to argue that the meaning of the 14th Amendment must be understood in context of its authors' intention to end the race-based subjugation of Black people. 

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• SOURCE: New York Review of Books
  9/17/2022
  

  Eric Foner on the Study of History and Democracy

  "I’m always interested in the connections between past and present. The questions that interest me historically tend to come out of the moment I’m living in."

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  1/13/2021
  

  Learning from the Failure of Reconstruction

  Isaac Chotiner interviews Eric Foner on the echoes of Reconstruction-era political violence in last week's Capitol riots. 

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• SOURCE: Times Literary Supplement
  12/4/2020
  

  Governing in Prose: Realpolitik and Idealism in Obama’s First Term

  by Eric Foner

  Eric Foner's review of the first volume of Obama's memoir focuses on the conflict between pragmatism and idealism, and concludes that the 45th President erred in offering bailouts to bankers and expecting cooperation from Republicans, mistakes that crippled his presidency and set the stage for Trump. 

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• SOURCE: The Hill
  8/21/2020
  

  Historian Eric Foner: Broken Promises Of Reconstruction Relevant To Today's Racial Justice Movement

  "Our society has never allowed African Americans to accumulate money and assets the way white families have,” Foner said.

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• SOURCE: Ideastream
  7/16/2020
  

  Historian Eric Foner Disputes ‘Fake History’ Of Reconstruction Era

  Foner has dedicated much his career to correcting this mistaken notion Reconstruction was a failure through his work as an academic as well as by authoring numerous books. A professor emeritus of history at Columbia University, Foner is this year’s Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards Lifetime Achievement winner.

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• SOURCE: Bloomberg
  5/3/2020
  

  Trump and Lincoln Are Opposite Kinds of Presidents

  When historians rank the worst presidents in American history, indecision and inaction in the face of crisis are common attributes. Until now, most of the worst served before or after the Civil War.

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• SOURCE: Crain's Cleveland Business
  3/30/2020
  

  And The Winners of the 2020 Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards Are ...

  Henry Louis Gates Jr., who chairs the Anisfield-Wolf jury, said in a statement that the winners "bring us fresh insights on race and diversity."

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  December 1, 2019
  

  Michael Kazin Reviews Eric Foner's Latest Book, The Second Founding

  by Michael Kazin

  Eric Foner’s story of American freedom, The Second Founding, sheds new light on how the Civil War and Reconstruction influenced the Constitution.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  9/18/19
  

  What Reconstruction-Era Laws Can Teach Our Democracy: The NY Times Reviews Eric Foner's Latest Book

  by Lincoln Caplan

  “The Second Founding” reflects Foner’s rigorously researched, now mainstream view that Reconstruction was “a massive experiment in interracial democracy."

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  9/7/19
  

  The Lost Promise of Reconstruction

  by Eric Foner

  Can we reanimate the dream of freedom that Congress tried to enact in the wake of the Civil War?

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  7/1/19
  

  The Supreme Court Is in Danger of Again Becoming ‘the Grave of Liberty’

  by Eric Foner

  Supreme Court decisions have practical consequences, which justices too often blithely ignore.

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  10-24-18
  

  Eric Foner raves about David Blight’s new biography of Frederick Douglass

  Foner begins his review with a personal note.

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• SOURCE: Youtube
  9-18-17
  

  Eric Foner discusses the manipulation of history

  Foner, author of “Battles for Freedom: The Use and Abuse of American History,” discusses confederate monuments, the role of the historian and the lies of omission.

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• 8-24-17
  

  Review of Eric Foner’s “Battles for Freedom: The Use and Abuse of American History”

  by Ron Briley

  In reading this collection of essays from Foner one is struck by the continuing relevance of his writings.

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  8-16-17
  

  Eric Foner says in an interview that it’s not necessary to remove Confederate statues

  Instead, he advocates putting up new ones to people like John M. Langston, a black member of Congress from Virginia in the 1880s.

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  8-14-17
  

  Is America Headed for a New Kind of Civil War?

  The New Yorker surveyed the opinions of these prominent Civil War historians: David Blight, Eric Foner, Judith Giesberg, Gregory Downs.

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• 8-6-17
  

  What I’m Reading: An Interview with Eric Foner

  by Erik Moshe

  His two favorite teachers: James Shenton and Richard Hofstadter.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  6-23-17
  

  Eric Foner doesn’t think much of a book that claims Lincoln moved slowly to emancipate blacks because he was a racist

  by Eric Foner

  The book is by English professor Fred Kaplan and was reviewed by Foner in the NYT.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  5-2-17
  

  In the Trump era Eric Foner "is one of the most dangerous men in the United States”

  Why? Because he remembers the past.