Jefferson LECTURE SERIES

The Origins of American Freedom

Eric Foner, DeWitt Clinton Professor of History, Columbia University

UC Berkeley Campus

About Eric Foner

Eric Foner is an American historian and DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University. His interests include political history, the history of freedom and the early history of the Republican Party. Foner is also the leading contemporary historian on the Civil-War Reconstruction period. He is only the second person to serve as president of the three major professional organizations: the Organization of American Historians, American Historical Association, and Society of American Historians.