Awards & Winners

Eric Foner

Date of Birth 07-February-1943
Place of Birth New York City
(New York, United States of America, Area code 917)
Nationality United States of America
Profession Historian, Writer, Professor, Author, Actor
Eric Foner is an American historian. On the faculty of the Department of History at Columbia University since 1982, he writes extensively on political history, the history of freedom, the early history of the Republican Party, African American biography, Reconstruction, and historiography. Foner is the leading contemporary historian of the post-Civil War Reconstruction period, having written Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877, winner of many prizes for history writing, and more than ten other books on the topic. In 2011, The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery, Foner's most recent book, was selected as the recipient of the Pulitzer Prize, Lincoln Prize and the Bancroft Prize. Foner also won the Bancroft in 1989 for his book Reconstruction. In 2000, he was elected president of the American Historical Association, succeeded by William Roger Louis.

Awards by Eric Foner

Check all the awards nominated and won by Eric Foner.

2011


Pulitzer Prize for History
Honored for : The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery

Nominations 2011 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Pulitzer Prize for History The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery

1989


Bancroft Prize
Honored for : Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877

Nominations 1989 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Pulitzer Prize for History Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877

1988


Nominations 1988 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
National Book Award for Nonfiction Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877