Author name: Philip S. Foner

Eric Foner (born February 7, 1943) 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. In 2000, he was elected president of the American Historical Association. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2018.

A 1815 memorial engraving of Thomas Paine, with a smirk on his face, containing his dates of birth and death, with text reading “The World is my Country and to do Good my Religion”, figures of religion and law shield themselves from his image – The New York Public Library

Foner’s Introduction to the Collected Works

Philip S. Foner / January 1, 1995

Biographies

At a time when men and women are fighting to realize that type of world it would be well to read again the words of Thomas Paine who wrote so much and so well to build the heritage of freedom we are battling to preserve and extend.

Thomas Paine Historiography

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