Eric foner and john a garraty biography
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Eric Foner
620 Fayerweather Hall
Columbia University
New York, N. Y. l0027
2l2 854-5253
Fax: 212 961-1903
email: ef17@columbia.edu
Web site: http://www.ericfoner.com
Education:
l959-63: Columbia College. B.A., summa cum laude, l963
l963-65: Oriel College, Oxford University. B.A., first class, l965
l965-69: Graduate Faculties, Columbia University. Ph.D., l969
Employment:
DeWitt Clinton Professor of History, Columbia University, l988-present
Professor, Department of History, Columbia University, l982-88
Professor, Department of History, City College and Graduate Center, City University of New York, l973-82
Pitt Professor of American History and Institutions, Cambridge University, l980-8l
Fulbright Professor of American History, Moscow State University, Spring l990
okänt Professor of American History, Oxford University, 1993-94 Leverhulme Visiting Scholar, Queen Mary, University of London, Spring 2008
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The Reader's Companion to American History
The Reader's Companion to American History offers a fresh, absorbing portrait of the United States from the origins of its native peoples to the nation's complex identity in the 1990s. Covering political, economic, cultural, and social history, and combining hundreds of short descriptive entries with longer evaluative articles, the encyclopedia is informative, engaging, and a pleasure to read. The Reader's Companion is sponsored by the Society of American Historians, an organization dedicated to promoting literary excellence in the writing of biography and history. Under the editorship of the eminent historians John A. Garraty and Eric Foner, a large and distinguished group of scholars, biographers, and journalists -- nearly four hundred contemporary authorities -- illuminate the critical events, issues, and individuals that have shaped our past. More than a reference book to be consulted simply for the dates or details of an event
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The Reader's Companion to American History
The Reader's Companion to American History offers a fresh, absorbing portrait of the United States from the origins of its native peoples to the nation's complex identity in the 1990s. Covering political, economic, cultural, and social history, and combining hundreds of short descriptive entries with longer evaluative articles, the encyclopedia is informative, engaging, and a pleasure to read. The Reader's Companion is sponsored by the Society of American Historians, an organization dedicated to promoting literary excellence in the writing of biography and history. Under the editorship of the eminent historians John A. Garraty and Eric Foner, a large and distinguished group of scholars, biographers, and journalists -- nearly four hundred contemporary authorities -- illuminate the critical events, issues, and individuals that have shaped our past. More than a reference book to be consulted simply for the dates or de