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Eric Foner

Eric Foner, a member of The Nation's editorial board, is DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University and author, most recently, of Forever Free: The Story of Emancipation and Reconstruction.

Currently

  • Reconstruction Lessons

    January 17, 2008 Subscribe

    Advocates of African-Americans and women achieve more by working together than by fighting.

  • Battle Pieces

    January 10, 2008

    In This Republic of Suffering, historian Drew Gilpin Faust strips from the Civil War any purpose beyond massive slaughter.

2007

  • Reading Lincoln in Pakistan

    November 8, 2007

    Pervez Musharraf wraps himself in Lincoln's mantle, but no one is fooled.

  • Lincoln's Antiwar Record

    February 27, 2007 Subscribe

    Looking for a model lawmaker who called a President to account for launching a war on fabricated grounds? Consider Illinois Representative Abraham Lincoln's rebuke of James Polk.

  • The President and the Prophet

    January 18, 2007 Subscribe

    The Radical and the Republican traces the antislavery politics of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln.

2005

  • Rosa Parks: A Woman of Substance

    October 26, 2005

    Frozen in memory as the simple woman who helped to bring down segregation, Rosa Parks was far more complex and formidable than the popular imagination makes her out to be . A fuller picture of her life should make us also remember the many unsung heroes and heroines who came before and after her.

  • The American Political Tradition

    October 12, 2005

    The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln expertly balances the roots of a political revolution: the impact of a few key leaders and the lives and aspirations of ordinary citizens engaging with the government for the first time.

  • Bread, Roses and the Flood

    September 15, 2005 Subscribe

    The only bright spot in this man-made disaster has been the wave of public outrage at the Administration's failure to provide aid to the most vulnerable.

  • The Power of Outrage

    September 6, 2005

    A nation's conscience is stirred by the abandonment of the poor and the frail: This may be the one bright spot of the man-made disaster on the Gulf Coast. Eric Foner gives a history lesson.

  • 'Freedom' Belongs to All

    January 27, 2005 Subscribe

2004

2003

2002

  • The Century

    December 10, 2002

  • Changing History

    September 5, 2002

    September 11 will undoubtedly lead historians to examine more closely the history of the US relationship with the rest of the world.

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RadioNation with Laura Flanders, 5/12/08
This week: Political shifts in the U.K.; Roberto Lovato and Jeanvieve Williams talk about "Juan Crow," a matrix of anti-immigration laws; and Ross Tuttle and Scott Horton look at the chaos in Guantanamo, as the first detainees head to trial. (13mb mp3)

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