[Okgrantsmanship] Interesting Underground Railroad Presentation - 5 pm today at OSU Library

[Mason, Linda]

Pulitzer Prize winner to speak at OSU, OU
The Journal Record 10/7/2015

STILLWATER - Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Eric Foner will discuss newly discovered records of slave escapes through the Underground Railroad in a lecture at 5 p.m. Wednesday at the Oklahoma State University Library in Stillwater.

Foner is author of Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad and The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery.

The lecture, presented by the OSU Department of History, is free and open to the public.

On Thursday, Foner will present a public lecture titled "Lincoln and Slavery" on the University of Oklahoma Norman campus. The lecture is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. in the Great Hall of the Sam Noble Museum, 2401 Chautauqua Ave.

Foner is coming to OU at the invitation of professor Stephen H. Norwood of the History Department as part of the President's Lecture Series.

Foner is DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University.


Dr. Linda Mason
Coordinator of Grant Writing
Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education
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Oklahoma City, OK 73104
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