{"id":1782,"date":"2013-03-12T13:37:02","date_gmt":"2013-03-12T13:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/news\/specialcollections\/?p=1782"},"modified":"2013-03-12T13:37:02","modified_gmt":"2013-03-12T13:37:02","slug":"author-to-discuss-pulitzer-prize-winning-book-the-fiery-trial-abraham-lincoln-and-american-slavery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/2013\/03\/12\/author-to-discuss-pulitzer-prize-winning-book-the-fiery-trial-abraham-lincoln-and-american-slavery\/","title":{"rendered":"Author to discuss Pulitzer Prize Winning Book: &#8220;The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/news\/specialcollections\/files\/2013\/03\/the-fiery-trial_custom-s6-c10.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1783 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/news\/specialcollections\/files\/2013\/03\/the-fiery-trial_custom-s6-c10.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"341\" height=\"514\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>BINGHAMTON, NY \u2013 Binghamton University\u2019s History Department will host the 2013 Harvey and Elizabeth Prior Shriber Lecture at <strong>3:30 p.m. Friday, March 15<\/strong>, in Lecture Hall 8, on campus. This event is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n<p>Guest speaker Eric Foner, Dewitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University, will discuss his Pulitzer Prize-winning book, \u201cThe Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery.\u201d Foner will talk about the evolution of Lincoln\u2019s views regarding slavery and race in America, indicating how his views changed and whether he should be considered the Great Emancipator.<\/p>\n<p>Foner is considered one of the country\u2019s most prominent historians. In addition to the Pulitzer Prize, his books have won the Bancroft Prize and the Lincoln Prize, among other awards. Professor Foner\u2019s publications have concentrated on the intersections of intellectual, political and social history, and the history of race relations in America.<\/p>\n<p>Foner has written other well-known works, including \u201cFree Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party Before the Civil War,\u201d \u201cTom Paine and Revolutionary America,\u201d \u201cThe Story of American Freedom,\u201d and \u201cWho Owns History? Rethinking the Past in a Changing World.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For additional information, contact Colleen Marshall at\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:csmarsha@binghamton.edu\">csmarsha@binghamton.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BINGHAMTON, NY \u2013 Binghamton University\u2019s History Department will host the 2013 Harvey and Elizabeth Prior Shriber Lecture at 3:30 p.m. Friday, March 15, in Lecture Hall 8, on campus. This event is free and open to the public. Guest speaker Eric Foner, Dewitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University, will discuss his Pulitzer Prize-winning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1782","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-binghamton-university-events","7":"category-books"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1782\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}