Monday, October 27 2014, 4pm M. Smith Griffith Auditorium at the Georgia Museum of Art One of the nation's preeminent historians, Foner is the author of the seminal Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution. His most recent book,The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery (2010), received, among other awards, the Bancroft Prize, the Pulitzer Prize for History, and the Lincoln Prize. His lecture, "Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad," will take place in the M. Smith Griffith Auditorium at the Georgia Museum of Art. The Gregory Lecture is supported by the Amanda and Greg Gregory Civil War Era Studies Support Fund. Research Area: U.S. 19th & 20th Century African American
