Displaying 1 of 1 2019 Format: Book Author: Foner, Eric, 1943- Title: The second founding : how the Civil War and Reconstruction remade the Constitution / Eric Foner. Edition: First edition. Publisher, Date: New York, NY : W. W. Norton & Company, [2019] Description: xxix, 224 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm 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. Subjects: 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. Other Title: 2nd founding Notes: Includes bibliographical references 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. LCCN: 2019014793 ISBN: 9780393652574 Other Number: 1084430574 System Availability: 1 Current Holds: 0 # Local items: 1 Control Number: 814393 # Local items in: 1 # System items in: 1 Call Number: 342.73 Foner Place Hold Add to My List Expand All | Collapse All Availability Map It Suggestions and more Displaying 1 of 1
