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Columbia University Professor Eric Foner is one of the best known historians of the Civil War Era. Although best known for his Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877 which won the Bancroft Prize and the Francis Parkman Prize, he is also the Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery which also won the Lincoln Prize and the Bancroft Prize.
Foner is offering three free courses over the next year on the Civil War Era, covering the coming of the war, the war itself, and Reconstruction. You can take the three courses through EdX for free. EdX is the MOOC for Harvard, MIT, and Columbia, as well as a few other schools. Here is the link to EdX:
https://www.edx.org/
Right now the lectures are also available on Youtube. I will post them here in order as they become available. If you know Foner's work, you know that the background to his career is his family's involvement in radical politics and scholarship. His opinions are bound to rile some folks. I hope you enjoy the lectures as I put them up and I hope you will comment, criticize, and applaud his talks.
Foner is offering three free courses over the next year on the Civil War Era, covering the coming of the war, the war itself, and Reconstruction. You can take the three courses through EdX for free. EdX is the MOOC for Harvard, MIT, and Columbia, as well as a few other schools. Here is the link to EdX:
https://www.edx.org/
Right now the lectures are also available on Youtube. I will post them here in order as they become available. If you know Foner's work, you know that the background to his career is his family's involvement in radical politics and scholarship. His opinions are bound to rile some folks. I hope you enjoy the lectures as I put them up and I hope you will comment, criticize, and applaud his talks.
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