Voices of Freedom: A Documentary Reader – Volume 2 (6th Edition) – eBook

Author(s)

Eric Foner

Dr. Eric Foner is the preeminent historian of his generation, highly respected by historians of every stripe ― whether they specialize in social history or political history. Foner's books have won the top awards in the profession, and he has been president of both major history organizations: the Organization of American Historians and the American Historical Association. He has worked on every detail of Give Me Liberty!, which displays all of his trademark strengths as a teacher, scholar, and writer. A specialist on the Civil War / Reconstruction period, he regularly teaches the 19th-century survey at Columbia University, where he is DeWitt Clinton Professor of History. In 2011, Eric Foner's The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery won the Pulitzer Prize in History, the Bancroft Prize, and the Lincoln Prize.