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Eric Foner was born in New York in 1943. He was educated at Columbia and Oxford Universities and did his PhD at Columbia under the supervision of Richard Hofstadter. Foner is currently DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia, a post he has held since 1988, and he has served as President of all three major professional organizations in the USA: the Organization of American Historians, the American Historical Association, and the Society of American Historians.
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Snowman, D. (2007). Eric Foner. In: Historians. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-230-59997-0_7
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