Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This cover image released by W.W. Norton shows "The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution" ...

Eric Foner’s vivid new book, about the semi-organized system to aid runaway slaves popularly known as the underground railroad, makes an excellent companion to “Reconstruction,” his magisterial 1988 ...

In the summer of 1838, an ex-slave entered a home in Brooklyn and demanded that three black servants be freed. “They are as free as I am,” David Ruggles told the men’s “owner.” When the owner refused ...

As tens of thousands gather in Selma, Alabama, to mark the 50th anniversary of the historic voting rights marches of 1965, we go back 150 years to look at another chapter of the freedom struggle of ...

“The past is the key to the present and the mirror of the future.” — Robert G. Fitzgerald (1840-1919), free African American and a founder of the Freedom Bureau’s schools in North Carolina quoted in ...

Last night, the Museum of the City of New York hosted the discussion of historian Eric Foner’s new groundbreaking book, Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad. The ...

The UAB College of Arts and Sciences will commemorate the life and legacy of 16th U.S. President Abraham Lincoln with a week of events Nov. 15-21.The Department of History has invited one of this ...

Eric Foner—Pulitzer Prize–winning historian, author of Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad (W. W. Norton, 2015), Columbia University professor, and author of more than ...

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Representative Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) speaks to reporters as she leaves a meeting with Progressive House Democrats at the US Capitol October 28, 2021, in Washington, DC. (Drew Angerer / Getty ...