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Book

The second founding : how the Civil War and Reconstruction remade the Constitution

Call Number

  • 342.73 F6738 2020 (CEN)

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Edition

[Norton paperback edition.]

Publication Information

New York, N.Y. : W.W. Norton & Company, 2020.

Physical Description

xxix, 264 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 21 cm.

Summary

"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 Supreme Court decisions and Jim Crow state laws. Today these amendments remain strong tools for achieving the American ideal of equality, if only we will take them up"--Back cover.

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.

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