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ALUMNI PROFILE
Foner Completes Term as AHA President
By Timothy P. Cross
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Eric
Foner '63
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Dewitt Clinton Professor of
History Eric Foner '63 capped his one-year term as president
of the American Historical Association with a keynote address,
"American Freedom in a Global World," on Friday, January 5, at the
Association's annual meeting in Boston. Foner, whose most recent
book, The Story of American Freedom (1999), was nominated
for a National Book Award, is a specialist in 19th century America,
notably slavery, the Civil War and Reconstruction. He received his
Ph.D. from Columbia in 1969.
At
the conference, Foner was also the subject of "Eric Foner and the
Practice of Historical Narrative," a roundtable discussion of his
impact as a historian. Included among the six historians in the
discussion were Penny Von Eschen '94 GSAS, who teaches at the
University of Michigan, and Manisha Sinha '94 GSAS, of the
University of Massachusetts, both of whom studied with Foner at
Columbia.
Founded in 1884, the
American Historical Association is the oldest and most prestigious
historical society in the United States. With 15,000 members from
nearly 5,000 institutions, it is also the largest historical
society in the United States as well as the umbrella organization
of historians studying every period and geographical area. Foner is
the 12th Columbian to serve as president of the AHA.
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