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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.
- Eric Foner
- 2019
Sep 17, 2019 · By grafting the principle of equality onto the Constitution, the amendments marked the second founding of the United States. Eric Foner’s rich, insightful history conveys the dramatic origins of these revolutionary amendments in citizen meetings and political negotiations.
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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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- Eric Foner
- W. W. Norton & Company
September 17, 20191:23 PM ET. Heard on Fresh Air. Terry Gross. 33-Minute Listen. Playlist. Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Eric Foner talks how the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments relate to current...
Oct 31, 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...
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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
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
