My admiration for him is profound, and if ever there was an exemplar to whom I would point aspiring historians for inspiration in the pursuit of their noble calling, it is Professor Foner.”Įric Foner, born in New York City, grew up alongside a brother playing stickball and riding bikes in the oceanside community of Long Beach, New York, on Long Island. Du Bois, has done more to reframe the narrative of his field away from the ‘Lost Cause’ myth of white supremacy, toward interracial democracy, truth, and justice. “As a scholar and writer, his footprint is vast, and no one, since the great W.E.B. “Eric Foner is the dean of Reconstruction historians, and is one of the most generous, and genuinely passionate, professors of his generation,” said Henry Louis Gates Jr., chair of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards jury. In “Who Owns History?,” he wrote succinctly: “A new future requires a new past.” Throughout his life, he has paid close scholarly attention to African American voices and questions of race. He has shaped how scholars and the public understand the politics and ideas that animated the Civil War and Reconstruction and that have carried through to the present. Eric Foner-public intellectual, historian and educator -is among the most influential American historians of the last half-century.
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