Eric Foner

Eric Foner (7 février 1943, New York) est un professeur d'histoire à l'université Columbia, spécialiste de la période de la Reconstruction après la guerre de Sécession. Il a présidé l' Organization of American Historians en 1993-1994 et l' American Historical Association en 2000. Foner est aussi membre du bureau éditorial de The Nation et de Past and Present et a reçu plusieurs prix.

Il a aidé Disney à ré-écrire le scénario de l'attraction Hall of Presidents.

Il est cité dans l'ouvrage du néoconservateur David Horowitz, The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America (2006).

Bibliographie

• (en) Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party Before the Civil War, New York, Oxford University Press, 1995 (1^re éd. 1970), poche (ISBN 978-0-19-509497-8) (LCCN 94019304)  Reissued with a new preface.
• (en) America's Black Past: A Reader in Afro-American History, New York, Harper & Row, 1970 ,editor
• (en) Nat Turner, Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Prentice-Hall, 1971 (ISBN 978-0-13-933143-5) (LCCN 77153440) , editor
• (en) Tom Paine and Revolutionary America, New York, Oxford University Press, 1976 (ISBN 978-0-19-501986-5) (LCCN 75025456) 
• (en) Politics and Ideology in the Age of the Civil War, New York, Oxford University Press, 1980, poche (ISBN 978-0-19-502781-5) (LCCN 80013024) 
• (en) Nothing but Freedom: Emancipation and Its Legacy, Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Press, 1983 (ISBN 978-0-8071-1118-5) (LCCN 83007906) 
• (en) Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877, New York, Harper & Row, 1988, 1^re éd., relié (ISBN 978-0-06-015851-4) (LCCN 87045615)  Political history; and winner, in 1989, of the Bancroft Prize, the Francis Parkman Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Award, the Avery O. Craven Prize, and the Lionel Trilling Prize.
• (en) A Short History of Reconstruction, 1863-1877, New York, Harper & Row, 1990, 1^re éd., poche (ISBN 978-0-06-096431-3) (LCCN 89045347)  An abridgement of Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution.
• (en) A House Divided: America in the Age of Lincoln, Chicago, Chicago Historical Society, 1990, 1^re éd. (ISBN 978-0-393-02755-6) (LCCN 89009239) 
• (en) The Reader's Companion to American History, Boston, Houghton-Mifflin, 1991 (ISBN 978-0-395-51372-9) (LCCN 91019508) , editor
• (en) The Tocsin of Freedom: The Black Leadership of Radical Reconstruction, Gettysburg, Pa., Gettysburg College, 1992 
• (en) Slavery and Freedom in Nineteenth-Century America, New York, Oxford University Press, 1994 (ISBN 978-0-19-952266-8) (LCCN 94031923) 
• (en) America's Reconstruction: People and Politics After the Civil War, New York, HarperPerennial, 1995, 1^re éd. (ISBN 978-0-06-055346-3) (LCCN 94040387) 
• (en) Freedom's Lawmakers: A Directory of Black Officeholders During Reconstruction, Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Press, 1996, rev. ed.^e éd. (ISBN 978-0-8071-2082-8) (LCCN 96017293) 
• (en) The New American History, Philadelphia, Temple University Press, 1997, rev. ed.^e éd. (ISBN 978-1-56639-551-9) (LCCN 96052059) , editor
• (en) The Story of American Freedom, New York, W.W. Norton, 1998, 1^re éd. (ISBN 978-0-393-04665-6) (LCCN 98003290) 
• (en) Who Owns History?: Rethinking the Past in a Changing World, New York, Hill and Wang, 2002, 1^re éd., relié (ISBN 978-0-8090-9704-3) (LCCN 2001051463) 
• (en) Give Me Liberty!: An American History, New York, W.W. Norton, 2004 (ISBN 978-0-393-97872-8) (LCCN 2004046535)  A survey of United States history, published with companion volumes of documents, Voices of Freedom: A Documentary History, ISBN 0-393-92503-X (vol. 1), and ISBN 0-393-92504-8 (vol. 2).
• (en) Forever Free: The Story of Emancipation and Reconstruction, New York, Knopf, 2005, 1^re éd. (ISBN 978-0-375-40259-3) (LCCN 2005040706) 

Some of his books have been translated into Portuguese, Italian, and Chinese.

Articles

• Foner, Eric. "Radical Individualism in America: Revolution to Civil War," Literature of Liberty, vol. 1 no. 3, July/September 1978 pp 1-31 online
• "He's the Worst Ever", Dec. 3, 2006, The Washington Post column on George W. Bush
• "Rethinking American History in a Post-9/11 World" History News Network -- September 6 2004
• "Diversity Over Justice" The Nation - June 26 2003
• "Dare Call It Treason" The Nation - June 2 2003
• "Not All Freedom Is Made In America" The Nation April 13 2003
• "The Century, A Nation's Eye View" The Nation December 10 2002
• "Changing History" The Nation September 5 2002
• "Expert Report of Eric Foner" from Gratz, et al. v. Bollinger, et al.
• "Rebel Yell" The Nation - January 27 2000
• (Additional articles available at EricFoner.com)

Interview en français

Renaissance de la démocratie américaine ?, La vie des idées 28 octobre 2008, propos recueillis par Nicolas Delalande