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To: Neeka who wrote (188667)	12/5/2006 6:50:15 PM
From: KLP	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793997

Here's his bio...Was going to guess Columbia, and I was right....I sure as heck wouldn't want him teaching my kids...or if he did, would want an opposite opinion as well as his. Eric Foner From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Eric Foner (born February 7, 1943 in New York City) is an American historian. He has been a faculty member in the department of history at Columbia University since 1982 and has written extensively on issues of race in American history, with particular emphasis on the Reconstruction period. [edit] Biography Appointed the Dewitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University, Foner specializes in nineteenth century American history, the American Civil War, slavery, and Reconstruction. He served as president of the Organization of American Historians in (1993-94), became President-elect of the American Historical Association in January 1999, and AHA president in 2000. From 1973-1982, he served as a Professor in the Department of History at City College and Graduate Center at City University of New York. Foner earned his B.A., summa cum laude, from Columbia University in 1963, a second B.A. from Oriel College, Oxford, as a Kellett Fellow in 1965, and his Ph.D. in 1969, under the tutelage of Richard Hofstadter at Columbia.