Eric Foner Audio & Video

Conversations host Harry Kreisler welcomes Pulitzer Prize winning historian Eric Foner for a discussion of his book, "The Fiery Trial."

Discover how the issue of slavery came to dominate American politics, and how political leaders struggled and failed to resolve the growing crisis in the nation.

From one of our most distinguished historians, a new examination of the vitally important years of Emancipation and Reconstruction during and immediately following the Civil War - a necessary reconsideration that emphasizes the era's political and cultural meaning for today's America.

The dramatic story of fugitive slaves and the antislavery activists who defied the law to help them reach freedom.

In this updated edition of Reconstruction, Eric Foner redefines how the post-Civil War period was viewed.

In this landmark work of deep scholarship and insight, Eric Foner gives us the definitive history of Abraham Lincoln and the end of slavery in America.....

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning scholar, a timely history of the constitutional changes that built equality into the nation's foundation and how those guarantees have been shaken over time.

Eric Foner brilliantly chronicles how Americans responded to the changes unleashed by the Civil War and the end of slavery.

The period following the Civil War was one of the most controversial eras in American history.