Author:
Foner, Eric, 1943-
Edition Statement:First edition.
ImprintNew York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, 2019.
Descriptionxxix, 224 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Note: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.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Note:"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.
