Democracy Now: Gateway to Freedom: Historian Eric Foner on the Hidden History of the Underground Railroad
Gateway to Freedom: Historian Eric Foner on the Hidden History of the Underground Railroad
CounterPunch: The Political, the Personal and the Polemical: Eric Foner on Freedom
In the essay collection “Our Fragile Freedoms,” Eric Foner wades again and again into the biggest debates surrounding human bondage in America. By Zaakir Tameez Zaakir Tameez is a legal scholar of the ...
The Hill: Historian Eric Foner: Broken promises of Reconstruction relevant to today’s racial justice movement
Historian Eric Foner said misconceptions about the Reconstruction era helped uphold white supremacy in the South, and a greater understanding of the period can provide context for the economic demands ...
Historian Eric Foner: Broken promises of Reconstruction relevant to today’s racial justice movement
“The past is the key to the present and the mirror of the future.” — Robert G. Fitzgerald (1840-1919), free African American and a founder of the Freedom Bureau’s schools in North Carolina quoted in ...
The Washington Post: Race and American history, through the eyes of an eminent historian
The New York Times: A Foremost Scholar of Slavery Wonders if America Can Ever Atone
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ERIC Through the Decades ERIC, the Education Resources Information Center digital library of the U.S. Department of Education, celebrated its 60th birthday in 2024. ERIC was founded in 1964 as a way for the Office of Education, the predecessor to the U.S. Department of Education, to collect and share education research.