b'Guest: Eric Foner\\xa0is DeWitt Clinton Professor Emeritus of History at Columbia University.\\xa0 He is the author of several books including, Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men;\\xa0The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery which won the Pulitzer; and The Second Founding : How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution.\\n\\xa0\\n\\nThe post KPFA Special \\u2013 Volatile Times: The Political History of the Civil War Part 1 \\u2013 The 1850s appeared first on KPFA.'