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Eric Foner
Researcher at Columbia University
Publications - 56
Citations - 4285
Eric Foner is an academic researcher from Columbia University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Politics & Spanish Civil War. The author has an hindex of 25, co-authored 55 publications receiving 4221 citations. Previous affiliations of Eric Foner include North Carolina State University & University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution - 1863-1877
TL;DR: This "masterful treatment of one of the most complex periods of American history" (New Republic) made history when it was originally published in 1988 as discussed by the authors, and redefined how Reconstruction was viewed by historians and people everywhere in its chronicling of how Americans responded to the unprecedented changes unleashed by the war and the end of slavery.
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Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party Before the Civil War
TL;DR: Focusing on the causes of the American Civil War, Foner as discussed by the authors showed that even after the Civil War these guarantees for "free soil, free labor, free men" did not really apply for most Americans, and especially not for blacks.
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The Story of American Freedom
TL;DR: From the Revolution to our own time, freedom has been America's strongest cultural bond and its most perilous fault line, a birthright for some Americans and a cruel mockery for others as discussed by the authors.