Without shortchanging present-day struggles, Foner’s view of the future is surprisingly hopeful. The book makes constitutional jurisprudence easily accessible to nonlawyers and illuminates the United States’ continuing troubled history of racism. Its called 'The Second Foundation: How Who Zivilist War And Reconstruction Remade The Constitution.' Foner is the author of several books about the Civil War or Recovery and is the DeWitt Clinton Professor Emeritus of History on Columbia Graduate. Rights can be granted, “and they can be taken away”-in this case for an entire century. The message is clear: progress is not linear. This one traces the roller-coaster history of the core acts of Reconstruction from their passage, through the “long retreat” of the Jim Crow decades, to the civil rights legislation of the 1960s, to the Supreme Court’s 2013 rollback of the Voting Rights Act, to the uncertain present. Constitution-which, respectively, abolished slavery, granted birthright citizenship and equal protection under the law, and established voting rights for black (male) Americans-did not just change the text they created “a fundamentally new document.” Foner has written more than 20 heralded books on the Civil War.

Read More GOODREADS RATING Paperback 17. 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 establish that ideal as American law.

marked by the greatest expansion of constitutional rights since the document’s ratification. An authoritative history by the preeminent scholar of the Civil War era, The Second Founding traces the arc of the three foundational Reconstruction amendments from their origins in antebellum activism and adoption amidst intense postwar politics to their virtual nullification by narrow. The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution. December 11, 2019.This book’s thesis is captured in its title: the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the U.S. For historian Eric Foner, the Reconstruction Era was nothing less than a second founding of the U.S. ' 'Second Founding' Examines How Reconstruction Remade The Constitution'.

'The achievements, and compromises, of two Reconstruction-era amendments'.

^ 'The 2020 Cundill History Prize Longlist'. The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution By Eric Foner Norton, 2019, 256 pp.

'Review: The Second Founding.' Foreign Affairs. 'What Reconstruction-Era Laws Can Teach Our Democracy'.

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