Eric Foner is an American historian who writes on American political history, the Civil War, and Reconstruction. He has taught in Columbia University's history department since 1982, and his textbooks include the Give Me Liberty! series for high school classrooms. His book The Fiery Trial won the Pulitzer Prize for History, the Lincoln Prize, and the Bancroft Prize. Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863–1877 (1988) is among his earlier works on the period, and The Second Founding looks at how the Civil War and Reconstruction reshaped the Constitution.
