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.

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.

" However, historian Eric Foner argues there is not sufficient evidence that scalawags were any more or less corrupt than politicians of any era, including Redeemers.

* 2011: The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery by Eric Foner

Donald is best known for his biography of Abraham Lincoln, which has been praised by the historian Eric Foner as the best biography of Lincoln.

In 1967, Foner was once again readmitted to the halls of academia when he was hired as a history professor at Lincoln University, a historically black university located near Oxford, Pennsylvania.

Foner ( 2010 ) contrasts the abolitionists and anti-slavery Radical Republicans of the Northeast who saw slavery as a sin, with the conservative Republicans who thought it was bad because it hurt white people and blocked progress.

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 ).

" 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.

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:

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.

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 ....

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 .”

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.

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.

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.

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

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

* Foner, Philip Sheldon.

* Foner, Eric.

* 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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Philip Sheldon Foner.

Eric Foner.

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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.