Eric Foner: How the Lessons of Reconstruction Have Impacted the Current Political Climate

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In a book review, Steven Hahn of New York University wrote of Eric Foner: "Like his mentor Richard Hofstadter, he has had an enormous influence on how other historians, as well as a good cut of the general reading public, have come to think about American history. This is the result of his voluminous scholarship and of his decades as a teacher. Indeed, when one considers the chronological and topical range of Foner's many books and essays--not to mention those of his doctoral students--only Hofstadter, C. Vann Woodward, David Brion Davis, and, in an earlier era, Charles Beard (who was also at Columbia) would seem to be his genuine rivals in impact and accomplishment." An article on the Bloomberg website recently described him as "one of America's greatest historians." On a somewhat different note, the Oklahoma Gazette wrote of a talk by Professor Foner at Oklahoma University, "suffice it to say that his giving a free lecture on OU's campus is just really, incredibly, super cool."

Professor Foner retired from teaching in 2018. During the 2014-15 academic year, his Columbia University course on The Civil War and Reconstruction was made available online, free of charge, via ColumbiaX and EdX. Here are links to the lectures (divided into segments); they can also be found on YouTube::

PART 1: THE COMING OF THE CIVIL WAR

PART 2: THE CIVIL WAR

PART 3: RECONSTRUCTION