Affected Quote by Eric Foner

“Successful teaching rests both on a genuine and selfless concern for students and on the ability to convey to them a love of history.”

— Eric Foner

A man working for wages his whole life is not really free. That is why Jefferson said, you have to own land. Southerners said,…

— Eric Foner

There are those who view the abolitionists as just maniacs, apolitical fanatics who helped to cause the war, and Lincoln is the model of…

— Eric Foner

“New laws also redefined in the interest of the planter the terms of credit and the right to property—the essence of economic power in…

— Eric Foner

Colonization was the idea that once slavery ended African-Americans should be encouraged - or required, in some people's view - required to leave the…

— Eric Foner

I don't [even] know the number of books on Abraham Lincoln. Ten thousand, twelve thousand? I have seen various numbers. It seems like every…

— Eric Foner

“Ironically, as Illinois Sen. Richard Yates pointed out, opponents of expansionism employed arguments extremely reminiscent of proslavery ideology, while its supporters upheld the principle…

— Eric Foner

Whatever Lincoln's racial views, which are not totally modern and egalitarian in many ways, he believes blacks should have this natural right to improve…

— Eric Foner

“It is a well known fact that Abraham Lincoln spent much of his spare time visiting wounded soldiers in Union Army hospitals. I've spent…

— Eric Foner

“Republicans, white and black, heaped scorn upon “respectables” who did not participate directly in the violence but “could not stop their sons from murdering…

— Eric Foner

Look, Mrs. McGillicuddy, it's not my fault your son jumped out a dorm room window on Christmas eve. I've written over fifty books as…

— Eric Foner

Who owns history? Everyone and no one--which is why the study of the past is a constantly evolving, never-ending journey of discovery.

— Eric Foner