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26
Citations
5463
World Ranking
1497
National Ranking
746

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2020 - Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
  • 1989 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1975 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Eric Foner is affiliated with Columbia University in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on social sciences with significant contributions to business, management, and accounting. Key subfields of study include sociology and political science, political science and international relations, and marketing.

Their main topics of work cover race, history, and American society; American constitutional law and politics; and American history and culture.

Eric Foner has published research in the venue Civil War history. A recent paper includes "The Causes of the American Civil War: Recent Interpretations and New Directions (1974 Reprint)" published in 2023 in Civil War history.

Frequent coauthors of Eric Foner include:

  • James R. McPherson
  • David M. Oshinsky
  • Daniel Bordoni
  • Kenneth Obel
  • Shannon Verner

Throughout their career, Eric Foner has received several recognitions:

  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1989
  • Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1975
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 2020

Best Publications

  • Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution - 1863-1877

    Eric Foner

  • Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men : The Ideology of the Republican Party Before the Civil War

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  • The Story of American Freedom

    Eric Foner

  • Tom Paine and Revolutionary America

    Eric Foner

  • A Short History of Reconstruction

    Eric Foner

  • Nothing But Freedom: Emancipation and Its Legacy

    Eric Foner

  • Politics and ideology in the age of the Civil War

    Eric Foner

  • The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery

    Eric Foner

  • The New American History

    Eric Foner

  • Forever Free: The Story of Emancipation and Reconstruction

    Eric Foner;Joshua Brown

  • Why is there no socialism in the United States

    Eric Foner

  • Who Owns History?: Rethinking the Past in a Changing World

    Eric Foner

  • The Reader's Companion to American History

    David Barrow;Eric Foner;John A. Garraty

  • The Meaning of Freedom in the Age of Emancipation

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  • Freedom's Lawmakers: A Directory of Black Officeholders during Reconstruction

    Eric Foner

  • American History Now

    Lisa McGirr;Eric Foner

  • Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877.

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  • The Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era

    Unknown

  • Rights and the Constitution in Black Life during the Civil War and Reconstruction

    Eric Foner

  • Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party Before the Civil War.

    Unknown

  • The Meaning of Freedom in the Age of Emancipation

    Eric Foner

  • A short history of Reconstruction, 1863-1877

    Eric Foner

  • The Story of American Freedom

    Mark Tushnet;Eric Foner

  • American Freedom in a Global Age

    Eric Foner

  • Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party before the Civil War

    Unknown

  • America's Reconstruction: People and Politics After the Civil War

    Eric Foner;Olivia Mahoney

  • Nothing but Freedom

    Eric Foner

  • The Strange Career of the Reconstruction Amendments

    Eric Foner

  • Tom Paine and Revolutionary America

    Unknown

  • Politics and Ideology in the Age of the Civil War

    Richard Twomey;Eric Foner

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