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Fall Colloquia

"The Idea of Freedom "

Eric Foner

Thursday, September 16, 2004

University of Houston Main Campus, Houston Room, University Center


 

 

 

About Eric Foner

Eric Foner is the DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University and ranks among our era's most distinguished historians. In his writings, he takes on the most contentious issues in the American past with extraordinary passion, erudition and insight.

The past President of the American Historical Association and the Organization of American Historians, he is the author of many highly acclaimed works in American history, including...

Reconstruction: American's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877

Politics and Ideology in the Age of the Civil War

Who Owns History? Rethinking the Past in a Changing World

 

Click below to see the streaming video of Eric Foner's presentation at the University of Houston on Thursday September 16, 2004

Eric Foner Presentation

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