Eric Foner

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

In the LRB Archive:

• Demon Cruelty: What was it like on a slave ship? · 31 July 2008

  • The Slave Ship: A Human History by Marcus Rediker

• Purchase and/or Conquest: Were the Indians robbed? · 9 February 2006

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

• The Lie that Empire Tells Itself: America’s bad wars · 19 May 2005

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

• Divinely Ordained: Lincoln · 23 October 2003

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

• Reasons for thinking that war is a good thing on the death of Liberalism · 27 June 2002

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

• Tired of Giving in on Rosa Parks · 10 May 2001

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

• Manufacturing in Manhattan · 1 June 2000

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

• How a desire for profit led to the invention of race on slavery · 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

• Eden without the Serpent · 11 December 1997

  • A History of the American People by Paul Johnson

• An Agreement with Hell · 20 February 1997

  • Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution by Jack Rakove

• Separation Anxiety · 18 April 1996

  • A Struggle for Power: The American Revolution by Theodore Draper

• More Pasts Than One · 23 March 1995

  • Telling the Truth about History by Joyce Appleby, Lynn Hunt and Margaret Jacob

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