Eric Foner is a DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University, an Elected Member of American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and an Elected Corresponding Fellow of British Academy. He specializes in the Civil War and Reconstruction, African American biography, slavery, and American political history. He has served as the President of Organization of American Historians (1993), the President of American Historical Association (2000), and the President of Society of American Historians (2006).