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Historian, Columbia University
Historian, Columbia University
Eric Foner, DeWitt Clinton Professor of American History at Columbia University, is the author of numerous works on American history, including Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party Before the Civil War; Tom Paine and Revolutionary America; and The Story of American Freedom, and Our Lincoln. He has served as president of both the Organization of American Historians and the American Historical Association, and has been named Scholar of the Year by the New York Council for the Humanities.
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His agnosticism would make him a completely untenable candidate in modern times, especially within the Republican party.
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Eric Foner on the appeal of those on the fringe.
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The author says it is in our best interest to be well-acquainted with our history and outlines a few ways to achieve this in our schools.
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The author enumerates the problems that plague the US but sees much opportunity for correcting them.
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The author describes an insatiable autodidact.
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The author mentions how the race question was never quite solved.
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The author characterizes Lincoln as a president who was unafraid to suspend some basic rights for the betterment of the union
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It was “social opportunity,” not religion, which drove Lincoln, according to the author.
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The author maps Lincoln’s trajectory over his career on the slavery issue.
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The author shares how he went about writing Lincoln’s narrative.
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The author speaks about the nation’s sixteenth president and his ongoing contemporary appeal.