The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution by Eric Foner

The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution

Eric Foner

254 pages digital 2019

7 editions

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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. The Reconstruction amendments abolished slav...

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