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Author Foner, Eric, 1943-

Title The second founding : how the Civil War and Reconstruction remade the constitution / Eric Foner.

Publication Info. New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, 2019.

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Edition First edition.
Description xxix, 224 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 180-205) and index.
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.
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.
Subject 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.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Constitutions.
HISTORY / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877).
POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / Legislative Branch.
American Civil War (1861-1865) (OCoLC)fst01351658
Constitution (United States) (OCoLC)fst01356075
Constitutional history. (OCoLC)fst00875777
Legislation. (OCoLC)fst00995636
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Chronological Term 1800-1899
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
ISBN 9780393652574 (hardcover)
0393652572 (hardcover)
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