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Sep 17, 2019 · In “The Second Founding,” historian and Reconstruction expert Eric Foner tells the story of how these three amendments—the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth—together represent the foundation for the continuing struggle for universal rights.
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The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution is a non-fiction book written by Eric Foner and published by W. W. Norton & Company in 2019. The book recounts the history of the Reconstruction era amendments to the U.S. Constitution and the historical efforts by the U.S. Supreme Court and certain states to ...
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Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Eric Foner talks how the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments relate to current debates about voting rights, mass incarceration and reparations for slavery. The...
Sep 17, 2019 · In “The Second Founding,” historian and Reconstruction expert Eric Foner tells the story of how these three amendments—the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth—together represent the foundation for the continuing struggle for universal rights.
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“Gripping and essential.”—Jesse Wegman, New York Times , The Second Founding, How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution, Eric Foner, 9780393358520 READER STUDENT
The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction . Remade the Constitution. By Eric Foner. (New York: W. W. Norton, 2019. Pp. 256. Cloth, $26.95.) In 1988, Eric Foner published one of the most important scholarly . works on the post–Civil War era: Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished . Revolution, 1863–1877
Sep 18, 2019 · “The Second Founding,” by the historian Eric Foner, argues that the radical promise of the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments — all passed after the Civil War — remains unfulfilled today.
