" Foner says Littlefield disbursed $ 200, 000 ( bribes ) to win support in the legislature for state money for his railroads, and Democrats as well as Republicans were guilty of taking the bribes and making the decisions on the railroad.

Eric Foner denounced Johnson as a " fervent white supremacist " who foiled Reconstruction ; Sean Wilentz wrote that Johnson " actively sided with former Confederates " in his attempts to derail Reconstruction.

Foner was born in New York City, the son of Liza ( née Kraitz ), a high school art teacher, and historian Jack D. Foner, who actively supported the Spanish Republic against fascism during the Spanish Civil War, the trade union movement, and the campaign for civil rights for African Americans.

What happens to residents who want to remain part of the larger unit .” Drawing an analogy from the American Civil War, Foner noted that West Virginia successfully separated from Virginia and returned to the Union while the Confederate States of America “ violently suppress East Tennessee ’ s desire to remain within the Union ” while Texas treated pro-Union Germans with “ extreme brutality ”.

Foner argues that Lincoln was a moderate in the middle, opposing slavery primarily because it violated the republicanism principles of the Founding Fathers, especially the equality of all men and democratic self-government as expressed in the Declaration of Independence.

According to historian Eric Foner, Andrew Johnson's conservative view of Reconstruction did not include blacks or former slaves involvement in government and he refused to heed Northern concerns when southern state legislatures implemented Black Codes that lowered the status of the freedmen similar to slavery.

Addressing the causes, Eric Foner would relate a historical context with multidimensional political, social and economic variables.

* Foner, Philip S. A History of Cuba and its Relations with the United States, 1962.

Foner also maintains that with The Age of Reason Paine " gave deism a new, aggressive, explicitly anti-Christian tone ".

Historian Philip S. Foner has described company towns as " feudal domain, with the company acting as lord and master.

Her mother is Jewish ( with ancestors from Russia and Lithuania ), from New York City, and is the ex-wife of Eric Foner, a history professor at Columbia University.

" Foner notes that " joined with the quest for profit, however, was a reforming spirit, a vision of themselves as agents of sectional reconciliation and the South's " economic regeneration.

He even employed one, Mike Wallace, to collaborate with him on American Violence: A Documentary History ( 1970 ); about the book, Hofstadter student Eric Foner said that it " utterly contradicted the consensus vision of a nation placidly evolving without serious disagreements ".

* Social Darwinism in American Thought, 1860-1915 ( Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1944 ); 1992 edition with preface by Eric Foner.

As a visiting professor in Moscow Foner compared secessionist forces in the USSR with the secession movement in the U. S. in the 1860s.

Foner takes note of political scientist Ronald Suny's opinion that the current crisis ( in 1990 ) that the Soviet Union was facing with respect to these states “ reflect the failure of Soviet nationality policy ” which served to “ strengthen nationalism in the republics, while the fate of minorities within those political units became extremely problematic .”

Foner wrote of potential problems with the separatist movements by these states:

* Booknotes interview with Foner on The Story of American Freedom, November 15, 1998.

Following his retirement, Foner continued to publish books at a frenetic pace, usually in the role of co-author of document collections in association with a younger scholar.

Following his wife Roslyn's death, Foner married again in 1988, with the second union ending in divorce in 1991.

" Dubofsky further alleged that Foner had engaged in a similar pattern of behavior with the unpublished work of other young scholars " too numerous to mention.

Some adopted New Left perspectives that he rejected, among them were Herbert Gutman, Eric Foner, Lawrence W. Levine, Linda Kerber, and Paula Fass, while others, such as Eric McKitrick and Stanley Elkins, were more conservative than he ; hence, Hofstadter had few disciples and founded no school of history writing.

Historian Eric Foner argues, " What remains certain is that Reconstruction failed, and that for blacks its failure was a disaster whose magnitude cannot be obscured by the genuine accomplishments that did endure.

To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the execution of Joe Hill, Philip S. Foner published a book, The Case of Joe Hill, about the trial and subsequent events, which concludes that the case was a miscarriage of justice.

In 2008, The Nation editorial board was composed of Deepak Bhargava, Norman Birnbaum, Barbara Ehrenreich, Richard Falk, Frances FitzGerald, Eric Foner, Philip Green, Lani Guinier, Tom Hayden, Randall Kennedy, Tony Kushner, Elinor Langer, Deborah Meier, Toni Morrison, Victor Navasky, Pedro Antonio Noguera, Richard Parker, Michael Pertschuk, Elizabeth Pochoda, Marcus G. Raskin, Andrea Batista Schlesinger, David Weir, and Roger Wilkins.

Gyllenhaal was born in New York City to film director Stephen Gyllenhaal and film producer and screenwriter Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal ( née Achs ).

Gyllenhaal was born in Los Angeles, the son of film director Stephen Gyllenhaal and film producer and screenwriter Naomi Foner ( née Achs ).

When A People's History of the United States was published in 1980, future Columbia University historian Eric Foner reviewed it in The New York Times:

Jon Wiener, professor of history at the University of California, Irvine, wrote that Eric Foner describes his father as his " first great teacher ," and recalls how, " deprived of his livelihood while I was growing up, he supported our family as a freelance lecturer ....

While visiting in Tbilisi, Foner was told that “ autonomous regions of non-Georgians within the republic ” would not be allowed to secede.

* Stephen Gyllenhaal ( b. 1949 ), film director ( great grandson of Anders Leonard G .), was married to producer and screenwriter Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal.

Phoenix was nominated for an Academy Award as best supporting actor for his role in the film ; Naomi Foner was nominated for Best Original Screenplay.

* Nancy Foner, PhD, was Assistant Professor of Anthropology, 1970 – 1973, before joining the faculty of the State University of New York at Purchase ( 1973 – 2004 ), where her career spanned from Assistant Professor to Distinguished Professor.

Her first husband was historian and Columbia professor Eric Foner.

He was married to screenwriter Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal for 32 years until their divorce was finalized in 2009.

Philip S. Foner ( December 14, 1910 – December 13, 1994 ) was an American Marxist labor historian and teacher.

Foner was a prolific author and editor of more than 100 books, and wrote extensively on what were at the time academically unpopular themes, such as the role of radicals, blacks, and women in American history.

In 1941, Foner became a public figure when he was stripped of his teaching position at City College of New York over his communism.

Philip Sheldon Foner was born in 1910 in the Lower East Side of New York City.

Historian Eric Foner argues that Paine's works " forged a new political language " designed to bring politics to the people, using a " clear, simple and straightforward " style.

In recent years, historians such as Harry Jaffa, Herman Belz, John Diggins, Vernon Burton and Eric Foner have stressed Lincoln's redefinition of republican values.

* Foner, Philip Sheldon.

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* Paine, Thomas ( Foner, Eric, editor ), 1993.

* Paine, Thomas ( Foner, Philip S., editor ), 1944.

Volume I contains the major works, and volume II contains shorter writings, both published essays and a selection of letters, but confusingly organized ; in addition, Foner's attributions of writings to Paine have come in for some criticism in that Foner may have included writings that Paine edited but did not write and omitted some writings that later scholars have attributed to Paine.

Foner writes that " The Age of Reason became the most popular deist work ever written.

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According to labor historian Philip S. Foner, the Wobbly conception of industrial democracy is intentionally not presented in detail by IWW theorists ; in that sense, the details are left to the " future development of society ".

* Eric Foner, Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877.

: Foner, Eric ( 1990 ), A Short History of Reconstruction 1863 – 1877.