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Davis R. Parker Memorial History Lecture: Eric Foner
Centennial Hall

An Evening with Eric Foner

Eric Foner, DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University, is one of this country's most prominent historians. He is one of only two persons to serve as president of the three major professional organizations: the Organization of American Historians, American Historical Association, and Society of American Historians, and one of a handful to have won the Bancroft and Pulitzer Prizes in the same year.

Professor Foner's publications have concentrated on the intersections of intellectual, political, and social history, and the history of American race relations. He has authored more than 20 books; his latest, Battles for Freedom: The Use and Abuse of American History, is a collection of essays from The Nation magazine and appeared in 2017. The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery earned the Bancroft Prize, the Pulitzer Prize for History, and the Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize. Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877 was awarded the Bancroft Prize. In a recent book review, Professor Steven Hahn of the University of Pennsylvania wrote of Eric Foner: "Like his mentor Richard Hofstadter, he has had an enormous influence on how other historians, as well as a good cut of the general reading public, have come to think about American history." Professor Foner's books have been translated into Chinese, Korean, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, and Spanish.

He holds a B.A. and Ph.D. from Columbia University, where he studied under Richard Hofstadter. Professor Foner was also a Kellett Fellow at Oxford.

This event is free and open to the public. Details here >