# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/eric-foner
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:17:29.087Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/eric-foner"
name: "Eric Foner"
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description: "Eric Foner is an American historian. He writes extensively on American political history, the history of freedom, the early history of the Republican Party, African American biography, the American Civil War, Reconstruction, and historiography, and has been a member of the faculty at the Columbia University Department of History since 1982. He is the author of several popular textbooks, such as the Give Me Liberty! series for high school classrooms. According to the Open Syllabus Project, Foner is the most frequently cited author on college syllabi for history courses."
tagline: "American historian (born 1943)"
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birthDate: "1943-02-07"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump