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...Eric Foner, an expert on the history of American Reconstruction, refused to comment yesterday on whether Harvard had offered him a post, but he said, "I have decided to remain at Columbia. I'm happy where...
Earlier this fall, Foner delivered a lecture sponsored by the History Department on "Writing Reconstruction History", which signaled that the department was considering making him an offer...
...longtime New York resident informed the department recently that he was not interested in leaving for Cambridge, according to a Harvard professor who asked to remain anonymous. The senior faculty member said Foner has turned down offers from a variety of prestigious history departments in the past...
...instance, our section leader told us that Geertz formulated his conception of ideology by studying pre-industrial, largely oral cultures. Yet Foner uses that same term, and in the same way, (at least Foner says he does), to describe a culture in which the mass media was the prmiary means of communication...
...approriate is it for Foner to apply Geertz's formualtion to the Northern United States in the years just preceeding the Civil War? And furthermore, is he even using Geertz's conception of ideology in the way Geertz intended? Such questions, ones that Foner himself no doubt had to confront, are ones which history concentrators cannot broach...