Eric Foner

Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad Eric Foner “Master historian” (San Francisco Chronicle) Eric Foner won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery. Widely considered one of the preeminent scholars of the Civil War, slavery, and Reconstruction, he is the author of dozens of books and journal articles about 19th century America. His books include The Story of American Freedom, Who Owns History?, and Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution, winner of the Bancroft, Parkman, and Los Angeles Times Book prizes. Gateway to Freedom details the little-known heroics of the slaves and activists who participated in the Underground Railroad. Parkway Central Library 1901 Vine Street Philadelphia, PA 19103 (between 19th and 20th Streets on the Parkway) This is a TICKETED event; $15 General Admission, $7 Students. For more information, please call 215-567-4341, or click here

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Atlanta has long been central to, and a symbol of, the nation’s path toward social justice. From the Civil War to the Civil Rights Movement, Atlanta has marked the nation’s struggles for freedom and equality and often been the setting for crucial turning points in America’s history. The influence of Atlanta’s citizens during the Civil War and the Civil Rights Movement, and in every struggle for justice in between, continues to shape our perceptions – and experience – of race, belonging, and justice. Indeed, what happened in Atlanta provides a lens on American identity and the ways that the “race problem” continues to plague our country. In recognition of the Civil War Sesquicentennial and the fiftieth anniversary of the passage of the Civil Rights Act, we will explore some of the philosophies, historical figures, and critical events that propelled justice activism from the Civil War to Civil Rights.

Join us for a powerful discussion with Julian Bond, Eric Foner, Leslie M. Harris, and Charles Reagan Wilson as they explore the past and its legacy, connecting issues raised by the Civil War with the key concerns of the Civil Rights Movement. How can these lessons from the past offer context, and even promise, as we plan for a future together?

Tickets are $5 for members of the Atlanta History Center and the Center for Civil and Human Rights; $10 nonmembers. Please follow the Event URL below to purchase tickets. Members of the Center for Civil and Human Rights, please call us at (404) 814-4150 to make your reservation at the discounted member rate.

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From his civil rights and anti-war activism in the 1960s to his support for gay rights in the new millennium, Julian Bond has been on the cutting edge of social change. As an activist, he has faced jail for his convictions, most recently for protesting the Keystone Pipeline. As a professor, he has taught at Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania, American University, and is a Professor Emeritus in the History Department at the University of Virginia.

While a student at Morehouse College over forty years ago, he co-founded The Committee on Appeal for Human Rights (COAHR), the Atlanta University Center student civil rights organization, the Atlanta student sit-in and anti-segregation organization, as well as the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). COAHR directed three years of non-violent anti-segregation protests that won integration of Atlanta’s movie theaters, lunch counters, and parks. Bond was arrested for the first time for sitting-in at the then-segregated cafeteria at Atlanta City Hall.

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Eric Foner is the DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University and is one of this country’s most prominent historians. He is one of only two persons to serve as president of the three major professional organizations: the Organization of American Historians, American Historical Association, and Society of American Historians, and one of a handful to have won the Bancroft and Pulitzer Prizes in the same year. Professor Foner’s publications have concentrated on the intersections of intellectual, political and social history, and the history of American race relations. His best-known books are: Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party Before the Civil War, Tom Paine and Revolutionary America, Nothing But Freedom: Emancipation and Its Legacy, Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877, and The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery.

Leslie M. Harris is Associate Professor of History and African American Studies at Emory University. She is the author of the award-winning In the Shadow of Slavery: African Americans in New York City, 1626-1863 and co-editor with Ira Berlin of Slavery in New York, which accompanied the groundbreaking New-York Historical Society exhibition of the same name. She recently completed Slavery and Freedom in Savannah, co-edited with Daina Ramey Berry and in collaboration with Telfair Museums of Savannah. Harris is currently working on a number of book projects: a book on late-twentieth century New Orleans; co-edited volumes on slavery and the university and slavery and sexuality, and two books on slavery and manhood in the antebellum South.

Charles Reagan Wilson is professor emeritus at the University of Mississippi, where he taught thirty-three years, serving as Kelly Gene Cook Sr. Chair of History and Professor of Southern Studies. He was director of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture from 1998 to 2007, coeditor of the Encyclopedia of Southern Culture (1989), and general editor of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture (2006-2014). Trained in American history at the University of Texas at Austin, Wilson is the author of three studies of religion in the South: Baptized in Blood (1980), Judgment and Grace in Dixie (1996), and Flashes of a Southern Spirit (2012). He has edited a dozen other books on the American South’s cultural history, as well as directing many conferences on the region’s history. He is editor of the New Directions in Southern Studies book series at the University of North Carolina Press and is coeditor of the forthcoming Mississippi Encyclopedia.

In partnership with the Center for Civil and Human Rights.

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The Northshire History Reading Group will meet on Tuesday August 19th at 6pm in the bookstore conference room to discuss Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution by Eric Foner.

If you are a member of this reading group, please stop by the bookstore to pick up your reserved copy of this title (and receive a 20% discount) For more information call the bookstore at 802.362.2200

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