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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,...
- 'Second Founding' Examines How Reconstruction Remade The ...
Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Eric Foner talks how the...
- 'Second Founding' Examines How Reconstruction Remade The ...
Jan 21, 2021 · What Reconstruction teaches us about white nationalism today. Historian Eric Foner on the long tradition of white nationalists clashing with Black people exercising their rights.
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Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877 is a historical non-fiction monograph written by American historian Eric Foner. Its broad focus is the Reconstruction Era in the aftermath of the American Civil War, which consists of the social, political, economic, and cultural changes brought about as consequences of the war's outcome.
And now, with the appearance of Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877, a massive volume of 690 pages, Foner has established himself as the leading authority on the Reconstruction period.
For historian Eric Foner, the Reconstruction Era was nothing less than a second founding of the U.S. marked by the greatest expansion of constitutional rights since the document’s ratification. But this second founding has also left a complicated legacy littered with devastating reversals of justice that demand our continued attention today.
Reconstruction was a period of profound change in all aspects of American life. The fundamental question that agitated the country in the period after the Civil War was how our society would respond to the destruction of slavery. What system of labor would replace slave labor?
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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.
