Eric Foner
Eric Foner, DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University, is one of the most prominent historians in the United States. He is the author or editor of over twenty books concentrating on the intersections of intellectual, political and social history and the history of American race relations. His most recent book, The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for History, the Bancroft Prize, and the Lincoln Prize. He is also the author of Give Me Liberty!: An American History, a widely-used survey textbook of U.S. history published by W. W. Norton.
Professor Foner is one of only two persons to serve as president of the three major professional organizations: the American Historical Association, Organization of American Historians, and Society of American Historians. Additionally, he is the recipient of the Presidential Award for Outstanding Teaching from Columbia University. As co-curator of two award-winning historical exhibitions, and through frequent appearances in news media and now this online series, he has endeavored throughout his career to bring historical knowledge to the Columbia community and to a broad public outside the university. His newest work is Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad.
Manuel A. Bautista Gonzales (Discussion Moderator)
Manuel A. Bautista González is a US History doctoral student at Columbia University, where he specializes in American economic, business, and financial history. He earned a BA in Economics at the National Autonomous University of Mexico.
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Mary Freeman (Discussion Moderator)
Mary Freeman is a graduate student in nineteenth-century US history at Columbia University. Her research interests include letter writing, the history of slavery and abolition, women’s history, and the American Civil War. Mary is currently at work on her dissertation, titled “Letter Writing and Politics in the Campaign Against Slavery, 1830-1870.”
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Kellen Heniford (Discussion Moderator)
Kellen Heniford is a PhD student in Columbia's Department of History. Her research interests center around slavery, racism, emancipation, and sectionalism in the 19th century United States.
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Thai Jones (Primary Sources Curator)
Thai Jones is the Herbert H. Lehman Curator for U.S. History at Columbia University's Rare Book & Manuscript Library. He is the author of two books: More Powerful Than Dynamite: Radicals, Plutocrats, Progressives, and New York's Year of Anarchy (Bloomsbury, 2014 [Walker, 2012]), and A Radical Line: From the Labor Movement to the Weather Underground, One Family's Century of Conscience (Free Press, 2004). Jones is working on a new book on the labor movement and the environment in a Nevada boomtown. Tentatively entitled, Goldfield: Dreams, Greed, Destruction, and the Fall of the Old West, it is under contract with Harvard University Press.
Mookie Kideckel (Discussion Moderator)
Mookie Kideckel is a PhD Candidate in the History Department at Columbia. He was a teaching assistant for this course last year.
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Brooks Swett (Discussion Moderator)
Brooks Swett is a Ph.D. student in history at Columbia University. Her work focuses on nineteenth-century U.S. and British history, particularly American Reconstruction and British imperialism.
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