Interview with Eric Foner and his Reconstruction MOOC

About a month ago, I interviewed the great historian Eric Foner about his Civil War and Reconstruction massive open online course (MOOC), the experience of teaching those time periods to students, and his work’s relationship to the left now for The Nation. I forgot to post it here; I’m doing so now because the third and final part of the MOOC, The Unfinished Revolution: Reconstruction and After, 1865-1890, has just started and you can still sign up. (All the lectures will eventually end up on youtube. Here are links to the first class on the buildup to the Civil War and the second class on the Civil War itself.)

Foner is a great lecturer, and the lectures are his class, the final time he teaches it at Columbia, recorded and broken up into segments. It’s especially awesome to get to sit in on Foner lecturing about Reconstruction, given that he wrote the book that still defines the period. I highly recommend checking it out.