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Eric Foner

Eric Foner

Eric Foner is the DeWitt Clinton Professor Emeritus of History at Columbia. His books include The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery, which won the Pulitzer Prize for History, and Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution, 1863–1877. (September 2023)

The Hidden History of Emancipation

Trial by Fire: A People's History of the Civil War and Reconstruction

by Page Smith

Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861–1867 Series II: The Black Military Experience

edited by Ira Berlin, with Joseph P. Reidy and Leslie S. Rowland

March 1, 1984 issue

Get a Lawyer!

The Transformation of American Law, 1780-1860

by Morton J. Horwitz

April 14, 1977 issue

Battle Over the Revolution

From Resistance to Revolution: Colonial Radicals and the Development of American Opposition to Britain, 1765-1776

by Pauline Maier

Revolutionary Politics in Massachusetts: The Boston Committee of Correspondence and the Towns, 1772-1774

by Richard D. Brown

The British-Americans: The Loyalist Exiles in England, 1774-1789

by Mary Beth Norton

Securing the Revolution: Ideology in American Politics, 1789-1815

by Richard Buel Jr.

February 22, 1973 issue

Letter

Joseph Lane

Come to the Fair

April 5, 1973 issue

Is This History Necessary?

The Coming of the Civil War

by Robert Goldston

Reconstruction: The Great Experiment

by Allen W. Trelease

The Making of an Afro-American: Martin Robison Delany, 1812-1885

by Dorothy Sterling

Great Gettin' Up Morning: A Biography of Denmark Vesey

by John Oliver Killens

Challenge to Become a Doctor: The Story of Elizabeth Blackwell

by Leah Lurie Heyn

Steal Away: Stories of the Runaway Slaves

edited by Abraham Chapman

To Be a Slave

by Julius Lester

Long Journey Home: Stories from Black History

by Julius Lester

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April 20, 1972 issue

Black Conspiracies

Denmark Vesey: The Slave Conspiracy of 1822

edited by Robert S. Starobin

The Southampton Slave Revolt of 1831: A Compilation of Source Materials

by Henry Irving Tragle

November 4, 1971 issue

Slave Masters, Women & Northern Nationalists

Crisis of Fear: Secession in South Carolina

by Stephen A. Channing

The Southern Lady: From Pedestal to Politics, 1830-1930

by Anne Firor Scott

The Meaning of Henry Ward Beecher: An Essay on the Shifting Values of Mid-Victorian America, 1840-1870

by William G. McLoughlin

February 25, 1971 issue

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