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CHAUTAUQUA: Pulitzer Prize-Winning Historian and Author Dr. Eric Foner on Lincoln and Slavery

  
Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and author Dr. Eric Foner, DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University, will present “The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery” on TUESDAY, March 5 at 7:30 pm in O’Donnell Hall of the Student Success Building.

A recipient of the Pulitzer Prize, Bancroft Prize, and Lincoln Prize, Foner is the author of Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution (1988), The Story of American Freedom (1998), and The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery (2010).

Foner’s visit includes:
• Discussion: 4:45-5:45 p.m., Room 201, Crabbe Library
• Dinner: 6-7:15 p.m., Faculty Dining Room, Powell Building
• Lecture and Q&A: 7:30-9 p.m., O’Donnell Hall, SSB
• Book Signing: 9-9:30 p.m., O’Donnell Hall, SSB

The above events are free and open to the public.

Classes are welcome and attendance slips will be available.

Event Date: March 05  7:30 p.m.  Location: O’Donnell Hall, Student Success Building   Cost: Free and Open to the Public
Contact Information: Minh Nguyen, 622-8667

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