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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.
17 de sept. de 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.
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.
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 Second...
18 de sept. de 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.
17 de sept. de 2019 · Eric Foner’s compact, insightful history traces the arc of these pivotal amendments from their dramatic origins in pre–Civil War mass meetings of African-American “colored citizens” and in Republican party politics to their virtual nullification in the late nineteenth century.
31 de oct. de 2019 · “The Second Founding” tells the story of the era’s constitutional amendments. Along the way, Foner asks how we ought to interpret the compromises enshrined in the text of the new...
