Race, democracy, and citizenship in nineteenth-century America

Paper presented at the Wits History Workshop: Democracy, Popular Precedents, Practice and Culture, 13-15 July, 1994

Columbia and Slavery: A Preliminary Report

Drawing on papers written by students in a seminar Professor Eric Foner directed in the spring of 2015 and another directed by Thai Jo­­­nes in the spring of 2016, all of which will soon be posted on this website, as well as Professor Foner's research and relevant secondary sources, this report summarizes Columbia’s connections with slavery and with antislavery movements from the founding of King’s College to the end of the Civil War. Significant gaps remain in our knowledge, and investigations into the subject, as well as into the racial history of the university after 1865, will continue

Expert Report of Eric Foner

Race has been a crucial line of division in American society since the settlement of the American colonies in the beginning of the 17th century. It remains so today. While the American understanding of the concept of race has changed over time, the history of African-Americans provides a useful template for understanding the history of race relations. The black experience has affected how other racial minorities have been treated in our history, and illuminates the ways in which America\u27s white majority has viewed racial difference

Cwbr Author Interview: The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln And American Slavery

Interview with Dr. Eric Foner, Dewitt Clinton Processor of History at Columbia University Interviewed by Nathan Buman Civil War Book Review (CWBR): Today, I\u27m joined by Eric Foner who is DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University to discuss his Pulitzer Prize-winning The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery. Professor Foner, congratulations on your award and thank you for joining me. Eric Foner (EF): Thank you very much; I\u27m happy to talk to yo

The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery

In April 1876, Frederick Douglass delivered a celebrated oration at the unveiling of the Freedmen’s Monument in Washington, D.C., a statue that depicted Abraham Lincoln conferring freedom on a kneeling slave. “No man,” the great black abolitionist remarked, “can say anything that is new of Abraham Lincoln. This has not in the ensuing 130 years deterred innumerable historians, biographers, journalists, lawyers, literary critics and psychologists from trying to say something new about Lincoln. Lincoln has always provided a lens through which Americans examine themselves

Eric Foner : reflexões sobre a história das américas, da escravidão e das relações sociais

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