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The second founding : how the Civil War and Reconstruction remade the constitution / Eric Foner.
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.
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 abolish slavery, guarantee all persons due process and equal protection of the law, and equip black men with the right to vote. Foner traces the arc of these pivotal amendments from their dramatic origins in pre-Civil War mass meetings of African-American "colored citizens" and in Republican party politics to their virtual nullification in the late nineteenth century. -- adapted from jacket
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- ISBN: 9780393652574
- ISBN: 0393652572
- Physical Description: xxix, 224 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, 2019.
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| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 180-205) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Introduction: 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 -- Epilogue. |
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| Pocono Mountain Public Library | 342.73 Fon (Text) | 35540000059795 | PMPL 2nd Floor Non-Fiction | Available | - |
