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The second founding : how the Civil War and Reconstruction remade the Constitution

Title
The second founding : how the Civil War and Reconstruction remade the Constitution / Eric Foner.
Author
Foner, Eric, 1943-
Publication
  • New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., [2019]
  • ©2019

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Description
xxix, 224 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 25 cm
Summary
  • From the Pulitzer Prize-winning scholar comes a timely history of the constitutional changes that built equality into the nation's foundation and how those guarantees have been shaken over time.
  • The Declaration of Independence announced equality as an American ideal, but it took the Civil War and the subsequent adoption of three constitutional amendments to abolish slavery, guarantee all persons due process and equal protection of the law, and equip black men with the right to vote. Foner 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. -- adapted from jacket
Subjects
Genre/Form
History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 180-205) and index.
Language (note)
  • Text in English.
Contents
Introduction: Origins of the Second Founding -- What is Freedom?: The Thirteenth Amendment -- Toward Equality: The Fourteenth Amendment -- The Right to Vote: The Fifteenth Amendment -- Justice and Jurisprudence -- Epilogue.
Call Number
Sc E 21-973
ISBN
  • 9780393652574
  • 0393652572
LCCN
  • 2019014793
  • 40029448584
OCLC
1084430574
Author
Foner, Eric, 1943- author.
Title
The second founding : how the Civil War and Reconstruction remade the Constitution / Eric Foner.
Publisher
New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., [2019]
Copyright Date
©2019
Edition
First edition.
Type of Content
text
still image
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Local Note
Schomburg copy with dust jacket.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 180-205) and index.
Language
Text in English.
Chronological Term
1800-1899
Other Form:
Online version: Foner, Eric, 1943- Second founding. First edition. New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., [2019] 9780393652581 (OCoLC)1120048406
Other Standard Identifier
40029448584
Research Call Number
Sc E 21-973
JFE 19-11455
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