With Olivia Mahoney, chief curator at the Chicago History Museum, Foner curated two prize-winning exhibitions on American history: "A House Divided: America in the Age of Lincoln", which opened at the Chicago History Museum in 1990, and "America's Reconstruction: People and Politics After the Civil War," a traveling exhibit that opened at the Virginia Historical Society in 1995. He revised the presentation of American history at the Hall of Presidents at Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom, and Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln at Disneyland. He has served as consultant to several National Park Service historical sites and historical museums. Foner served as an expert witness for the University of Michigan's defense of affirmative action in its undergraduate and law school admissions ("Gratz v. Bollinger" and "Grutter v. Bollinger") considered by the US Supreme Court in 2003. Foner serves on the editorial boards of "Past and Present" and "The Nation". Foner has written for "The New York Times", "The Washington Post", "Los Angeles Times", "London Review of Books", and other publications. In addition, he has spoken about history on television and radio, including "Charlie Rose", "Book Notes", and "All Things Considered." He has appeared in historical documentaries on PBS and The History Channel. Foner contributed an essay and conversation with John Sayles in "Past Imperfect: History According to the Movies", published by the Society of American Historians in 1995. He was the historian in "Freedom: A History of US" on PBS in 2003. Foner has appeared frequently on popular media to discuss US history:  The professional awards which Foner has received indicate the respect given his work. Journalist Nat Hentoff described his "Story of American Freedom" "an indispensable book that should be read in every school in the land." "Eric Foner is one of the most prolific, creative, and influential American historians of the past 20 years," according to "The Washington Post". His work is "brilliant, important" a reviewer wrote in the "Los Angeles Times". In a review of "The Story of American Freedom" in the "New York Review of Books", Theodore Draper disagreed with Foner's conclusions:  If the story of American freedom is told largely from the perspective of blacks and women, especially the former, it is not going to be a pretty tale. Yet most Americans thought of themselves not only as free but as the freest people in the world. John Patrick Diggins of the City University of New York wrote that Foner's "Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863–1877", was a "magisterial" and "moving" narrative, but compared Foner's "unforgiving" view of America for its racist past to his notably different views on the fall of communism and Soviet history.