"BOOK BREAKS" WITH HISTORIAN ERIC FONER Sunday, May 10 at 2pm ET

"BOOK BREAKS" WITH HISTORIAN ERIC FONER Sunday, May 10 at 2pm ET - RSVP here RSVP FOR "BOOK BREAKS" SUNDAY, MAY 10 at 2PM ET Gilder Lehrman Book Breaks is a new weekly program - beginning Sunday, May 10 at 2pm ET - that features the most exciting history scholars in America in live book discussions on Zoom, followed by a Q&A with home audiences. Our first Book Breaks features Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Eric Foner discussing his latest book, The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution. Upcoming Book Breaks will feature Annette Gordon-Reed (The Hemingses of Monticello), John M. Barry (The Great Influenza), Richard Stengel (Information Wars), and many more. RSVP for our May 10 program here.   Eric Foner, DeWitt Clinton Professor Emeritus of History at Columbia University, specializes in the Civil War and Reconstruction, slavery, and 19-century America. His book The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery won the Pulitzer Prize in 2011.