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Apr 4, 2024 · Eric Foner. A groundbreaking new book demonstrates that even during the days of slavery, African Americans knew a lot more about legal principles than has been imagined. April 4, 2024 issue. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture/New York Public Library.
After the Civil War, the federal government promised former slaves equality and citizenship. Historian Eric Foner says the failed promises reverberate today. Originally broadcast Jan. 9, 2006.
Eric Foner (/ ˈfoʊnər /; born February 7, 1943) is an American historian. He writes extensively on American political history, the history of freedom, the early history of the Republican Party, African American biography, the American Civil War, Reconstruction, and historiography, and has been a member of the faculty at the Columbia ...
Dec 2, 2019 · For nearly half a century, Eric Foner has been challenging and overturning the benighted assertions made about the most studied and contentious period in US history. Nothing has been more...
Eric Foner* Beginning in the 1 930s , Reconstruction historiography underwent a dramatic change. Early-twentieth-century historians of Reconstruction viewed aggressive federal intervention to protect the civil ňghts of freed slaves as a mistake , and they celebrated the Compromise of 1877 and the subsequent retreat from Reconstruction.
Sep 17, 2019 · Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Eric Foner talks how the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments relate to current debates about voting rights, mass incarceration and reparations for slavery.
Attorney General Meese criticized the Court for adopting the legal doctrine known as ‘incorporation’—that the Amendment requires the states to respect the prohibitions on the abuse of power originally applied to the federal government by the Bill of Rights.
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