Return to List Displaying 1 of 0 2019 Title: The second founding : how the Civil War and Reconstruction remade the constitution Author: Foner, Eric, 1943- Edition: First edition. Format: Book Publisher, Date: New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, [2019] 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. Subjects: United States. Constitution. 13th-15th Amendments. Constitutional history -- United States -- 19th century. Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) -- Influence. United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Law and legislation. Contents: 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. ISBN 9780393652574 Place Hold Add to My List Expand All | Collapse All Find It Map It Suggestions and more Large Cover Image Librarian's View Return to List Displaying 1 of 0
