Foner

Mr. Foner is not the first to build such a bridge.

The Path To Proclamation Allen C. Guelzo 2010

Foner is more interested in free labor and freedmen.

Between War and Peace Col. Matthew Moten 2011

Foner, the DeWitt Clinton professor of history at Columbia University, wrote in Fiery Trial about the evolving attitude of Lincoln toward slavery and slaves as the Civil War unfolded.

Prestigious Lincoln Prize goes to Eric Foner Linda Wheeler 2011

The likes of Gore Vidal, Joyce Carol Oates, Peter Matthiessen, Russell Banks, William Kennedy, Marilynne Robinson, and Barry Unsworth were joined by historians such as Eric Foner and David Nasaw to sit in the sun for a week or so and talk about making history.

How Historical Fiction Went Highbrow 2009

The Library Journal wrote, To Foner, Lincoln both operated within and transcended the politics of slavery in his day.

Prestigious Lincoln Prize goes to Eric Foner Linda Wheeler 2011

As Foner put it in his keynote address, “Works of history are first and foremost acts of the imagination.”

How Historical Fiction Went Highbrow 2009

The likes of Gore Vidal, Joyce Carol Oates, Peter Matthiessen, Russell Banks, William Kennedy, Marilynne Robinson, and Barry Unsworth were joined by historians such as Eric Foner and David Nasaw to sit in the sun for a week or so and talk about making history.

How Historical Fiction Went Highbrow 2009

"One of the great things about his writing is that he recreates past situations with amazing vividness," Eric Foner, a history professor at Columbia University, told The New York Times.

Joseph Ellis 2010

And yet, while history itself has attained the status of social science — though not in the mind of Foner, who has campaigned at Columbia to have his department moved to the humanities — historical fiction has, in the past, been snubbed.

How Historical Fiction Went Highbrow 2009

Foner is more interested in free labor and freedmen.

Between War and Peace Col. Matthew Moten 2011