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- Page Count 256
- Publication Year 2019
- Publisher W. W. Norton & Company
- ISBN-13 9780393652574
The Second Founding
By Eric Foner
Archival Summary & Scope
Pulitzer Prize-winning scholar Eric Foner examines the transformative Reconstruction amendments (13th, 14th, 15th). These post-Civil War changes abolished slavery, established birthright citizenship, and guaranteed due process, equal protection, and voting rights for Black men. Heralding a "second founding," they grafted equality onto the Constitution and shifted enforcement to federal authority. Foner traces their dramatic origins and subsequent nullification by late 19th-century Supreme Court decisions and the rise of Jim Crow. Timely and insightful, this history reveals how contemporary challenges to these basic rights echo past struggles, demanding ongoing vigilance.Archival Categorization Notes
This literature has been indexed under the primary pillar of American Civil War. It was manually vetted for the Read For Truth database because it provides educational insights into Causes & Aftermath, assisting researchers in locating established secondary research within this specific taxonomy.
