i am happy to be here tonight with my esteemed colleague eric foner. research at the shoulder center and as i approached the library desk to retrieve some materii

eric foner. [laughter] you: when i asked you what are doing, i got a modest, "oh just checking out some things about the underground railroad." book,e have is "gateways to freedom." i look forward to interacting with you later this evening. eric, you tell your readers that the story of the underground railroad is a jigsaw puzzle with many pieces missing. usually, historians think of a question and go in search of documents. sometimes we find extraordinary documents and let questions emerge. why don't you tell us about the document that you found in the columbia university archives? : is this on?this thanks to the museum for inviting us here. thank you for interrogating me. it is like being back on my oral exams. [laughter] mr. foner: thank you for coming. i have written a good number of books, as was said. people often ask, "how do you choose what to write?" usually, it is some kind of historical question that you,nly interests whether it is the lincoln assassination or other things. then you dec

eric foner. [laughter] you: when i asked you what are doing, i got a modest, "oh just checking out some things about the underground railroad." book,e have is "gateways to freedom." i look forward to interacting with you later this evening. eric, you tell your readers that the story of the underground railroad is a jigsaw puzzle with many pieces missing. usually, historians think of a question and go in search of documents. sometimes we find extraordinary documents and let questions emerge. why don't you tell us about the document that you found in the columbia university archives? : is this on?this thanks to the museum for inviting us here. thank you for interrogating me. it is like being back on my oral exams. [laughter] mr. foner: thank you for coming. i have written a good number of books, as was said. people often ask, "how do you choose what to write?" usually, it is some kind of historical question that you,nly interests whether it is the lincoln assassination or other things. then you dec

i am happy to be here tonight with my esteemed colleague eric foner. research at the shoulder center and as i approached the library desk to retrieve some materials i saw that the staff was animatedly whispering and pointing because there had been a celebrity sighting. foner, of course. doing,asked what you are i got a modest, checking things out about the underground railroad. now of course, we have his magnificent book, gateway to freedom, about the underground railroad. you tell your readers of the story of the underground railroad, it is like a jigsaw puzzle with many pieces missing. usually historians think of a question and go in search of documents to answer that question, but sometimes we find extraordinary documents and then left questions emerge from those documents. why don't you tell us about the documents you found and the questions that it raised for you? eric: is this on? first of all, thank you to the museum for inviting me here. thank you to martha for interrogating me. it is like being back in my oral exams from years ago. yes, i have