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Who is Permitted to Vote?: Lessons from the Reconstruction

Published: Oct. 2, 2020, 4:30 p.m.

b'Dr. Eric Foner, educator, historian, and Pulitzer Prize-winning author, is often regarded as the "dean of Reconstruction historians." Professor Emeritus of History at Columbia University, Dr. Foner has used his career as a scholar to construct a more truthful narrative of the Civil War and Reconstruction. This year Dr. Foner was named the 2020 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award honoree for Lifetime Achievement for most recent book, The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution. Join us at the City Club as he discusses his book.'