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

224 pages • first pub 2019 (view editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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From the Pulitzer Prize–winning historian, an authoritative story of the constitutional changes that built equality into the nation’s foundation.The Declaration of Independence announced equality as an American ideal, but it took the Civil War and...

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