Eric Foner appears in the following:
A Historian's Guide to the 2020 Election
Monday, September 28, 2020
Fragility in Liberty
Thursday, February 20, 2020
Two Schools in Marin County
Thursday, February 06, 2020
40 Acres in Mississippi
Thursday, January 30, 2020
Slavery in the North after the American Revolution
Monday, March 16, 2015
Pulitzer Prize Winners
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
Among the 2011 Pulitzer Prize winners are writers Jennifer Eagan, Eric Foner, Ron Chernow, and Siddhartha Mukherjee, who were all guests on the Leonard Lopate Show last year. You can listen to their conversations with Leonard below.
American Values: Freedom
Friday, December 17, 2010
We frequently hear the term “values” discussed with regard to American politics, culture and life. But what are "American values?" All week, we’re delving into this question. Yesterday we discussed home ownership. Today we wrap up our series with a look at freedom. How did freedom come to be an American Value? If we value freedom so much, why have we spent so much of our nation’s history enslaving our own people, or oppressing those in other nations? And what does Freedom mean to Americans today?
The Fiery Trial
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Historian Eric Foner discusses how slavery and emancipation transformed Lincoln—and the nation—and gives the definitive history of Lincoln and the end of slavery in America. In The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery, he gives an account of Lincoln’s political navigations that led to his rise as a leader, and how his pragmatism and principle led him to finally embrace the Civil War's “fundamental and astounding” result: the immediate, uncompensated abolition of slavery.