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Eric Foner

Eric Foner is DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University. Our Lincoln, an edited volume, will be published in the autumn.

Selected bibliography

  • Forever Free! The Story of Emancipation and Reconstruction (2005)
  • Tom Paine and Revolutionary America (2004)
  • Give Me Liberty! An American History (2004)
  • Who Owns History? Rethinking the Past in a Changing (2002)
  • Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877 (2002)
  • The Story of American Freedom (1999)
  • A Short History of Reconstruction, 1863-1877 (1990)
  • Politics and Ideology in the Age of the Civil War (1981)
  • Nat Turner (1972)
  • Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: Ideology of the Republican Party Before the Civil War (1971)

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In the LRB archive

subscriber-only content Demon Cruelty · 31 July 2008

subscriber-only content Purchase and/or Conquest · 9 February 2006

  • How the Indians Lost Their Land: Law and Power on the Frontier by Stuart Banner

subscriber-only content The Lie that Empire Tells Itself · 19 May 2005

  • The Dominion of War: Empire and conflict in North America 1500-2000 by Fred Anderson and Andrew Cayton  Buy this book

subscriber-only content Divinely Ordained · 23 October 2003

  • Lincoln by Richard Carwardine
  • Lincoln's Constitution by Daniel Farber

subscriber-only content Reasons for thinking that war is a good thing · 27 June 2002

  • The Strange Death of American Liberalism by H.W. Brands

11 September · 4 October 2001

subscriber-only content Tired of Giving in · 10 May 2001

  • Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory: The Life of Rosa Parks by Douglas Brinkley

Not currently in the LRB archive

 not available in archive Manufacturing in Manhattan · 1 June 2000

  • Working-Class New York: Life and Labour Since World War Two by Joshua Freeman

 not available in archive How a desire for profit led to the invention of race · 4 February 1999

  • Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America by Ira Berlin
  • The Making of New World Slavery: From the Baroque to the Modern 1492-1800 by Robin Blackburn

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