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Eric Foner: 2009: <em>Who Owns History?</em>
Eric Foner is one of America's preeminent historians, especially known for his work on the post-Civil War period of Reconstruction. In this lecture from the 2009 Key West Literary Seminar, Foner explores the social and political implications of historical inquiry, and the role of the imagination in the historian's work.
Not entirely random quotes from Session 1
Thanks again for the following to board member Nancy Klingener. Photo by Curt Richter. "The line between historical fiction and historical scholarship is not as hard and fast as we might think." –Eric Foner, Columbia history professor "History is...
Writers Recommend
With more than 40 writers scheduled to speak during our Seminar this January, it can be difficult for a reader to know where to start. Sure, there are the classics and prize-winners, like William Kennedy's Ironweed and David Levering Lewis's two-volume biography of W.E.B. DuBois; and there are the most recent books, like Joyce Carol Oates's Wild Nights! and Gore Vidal's </em>Selected Essays<em>. But what of the hundreds you won't have time for? The exquisite pastime of reading can suddenly grow so stressful.<br> <br> With this in mind, we've asked our panelists which books </em>they<em> would recommend from among their own works and those of their peers. We kick off this recurring feature with historians Eric Foner and Jill Lepore, and novelist and critic Thomas Mallon
<i>The past is never dead. It's not even past.</i>
In a coincidence too strange to pass up, Barack Obama's speech on race in America yesterday borrows the same fragment of William Faulkner that we've been using to promote next year's theme of Historical Fiction and The Search For Truth....
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