Eric Foner
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Eric Foner (born February 7, 1943) is an activist left-wing American historian. He has been a faculty member in the department of history at Columbia University since 1982 and writes extensively on political history, the history of freedom, the early history of the Republican Party, African American biography, Reconstruction, and historiography.
In 2000, he was elected president of the American Historical Association, and in 2018 he was elected to the American Philosophical Society.
Foner is a frequent contributor to the progressive publication The Nation.[1]