Eric Foner, DeWitt Clinton Professor Emeritus of History at Columbia University, is one of the most prominent historians in the United States. Winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and the Bancroft Prize, he is also one of only two persons to serve as president of the three major professional organizations: the American Historical Association, Organization of American Historians, and Society of American Historians. Professor Foner’s books have focused on intellectual and political history and the history of American race relations. His landmark study, Reconstruction, 1863-1877: America’s Unfinished Revolution (1988), is regarded as the standard work on the era. The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery (2010) won the Bancroft and the Pulitzer. And his Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad (2015) was a New York Times best-seller. His most recent work, The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution (2019), is about the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments--a timely history of the constitutional changes that built equality into the nation’s foundation and how those guarantees have been shaken over time.

This is the first in a series of lectures at SMU that will explore “Suffrage in America: the Value of the Vote,” a collaborative initiative in 2020 marking the 100th anniversary of the Nineteenth Amendment and the 150th anniversary of the Fifteenth Amendment.

Please watch for notices of other events throughout the year.

For more information, visit https://www.smu.edu/Provost/Ethics/Events/SuffrageinAmerica

To RSVP: 214-768-2984 or mfevans@smu.edu