Eric Foner is the DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University and the author of a number of books on the Civil War and Reconstruction, slavery, and nineteenth-century America, including the prizewinning Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877.
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In this landmark work of deep scholarship and insight, Eric Foner gives us the definitive history of Abraham Lincoln and the end of slavery in America. Foner begins with Lincoln's youth in Indiana and Illinois and follows the trajectory of his career acro... SEE MORE