Professor Foner's new, free, online courses on THE CIVIL WAR AND RECONSTRUCTION will be available this academic year, beginning in mid-September, from Columbia University at ColumbiaX. His latest book is Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad. His book, The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery won the Pulitzer, Bancroft, and Lincoln prizes for 2011. Thus began the period of Radical or Congressional Reconstruction, which lasted until the end of the last Southern Republican governments in 1877. Reconstruction Updated Edition America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877 By Eric Foner On Sale: Decem25.99 Now: 20.79 Spend 49 on print products and get FREE shipping at HC. He has also been the curator of several museum exhibitions, including the prize-winning "A House Divided: America in the Age of Lincoln," at the Chicago Historical Society. The Reconstruction Acts of 1867 divided the South into five military districts and outlined how new governments, based on manhood suffrage without regard to race, were to be established. He is one of only two persons to serve as President of the Organization of American Historians, American Historical Association, and Society of American Historians.
First Class - Oriel College, Oxford University, 1965Įric Foner, DeWitt Clinton Professor Emeritus of History, specializes in the Civil War and Reconstruction, slavery, and 19th-century America. A generation ago, in his masterly account Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution, Foner detailed why the attempt to rebuild the country on a racially egalitarian footing after the.
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