Monday, March 18, 2019

3/19 Eric Foner will speak at Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series,


Charlie Welch<cwelch@tecschange.org>

Via  Act-MA <act-ma-bounces@act-ma.org>
Historian Eric Foner will speak at Boston University’s Howard Zinn
Memorial Lecture Series, Tuesday, March 19, 2019.

Foner will talk on the topic of “The Second Founding: How the Civil War
and Reconstruction Forged a Constitutional Revolution.”

Foner is known for several texts including /Nothing But Freedom:
Emancipation and Its Legacy/ (1983); /Reconstruction: America’s
Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877/ (1988) /Who Owns History? Rethinking
the Past in a Changing World/ (2002); his survey textbook of American
history, /Give Me Liberty! An American History/ (2004); and /The Fiery
Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery/ (2010).

More event information and registration available at the Boston
University Alumni Association website
<http://bostonu.imodules.com/s/1759/2-bu/2col.aspx?sid=1759&gid=2&pgid=6333&cid=11679&ecid=11679&crid=0&calpgid=1050&calcid=2086>.

The Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series was created in 2008 by former
Zinn student Alex H. MacDonald (CAS’72) and his wife Dr. Maureen A.
Strafford (MED’76). Read more about Zinn’s impact on students in the Our
Favorite Teacher series
<https://www.howardzinn.org/about/howard-zinn-favorite-teacher/> and
consider adding your story
<https://www.howardzinn.org/submit-story-howard-zinn-favorite-teacher/>.


https://www.howardzinn.org/eric-foner-2019-howard-zinn-memorial-lecture/#

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