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It was about the post-Civil War period and the political resistance, particularly from Southern states, to the newly adopted constitutional amendments abolishing slavery and guaranteeing racial...
- '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.
- Fabiola Cineas
Their vision was of a nation of equality, where race did not become the determining factor in what rights you had, in which everybody born in the United States was a citizen of the United States. They had a alternative Constitutional vision.
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.
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.
Eric Foner wrote Reconstruction in an era of in the history of labor and social life. As the book's organizational Reconstruction at Twenty-Five 15. clear, he sought to balance the story of national-level policy making with a careful ex- amination of the local histories of emancipation.
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Mar 28, 2015 · Reconstruction refers to the period, generally dated from 1865 to 1877, during which the nation’s laws and Constitution were rewritten to guarantee the basic rights of the former slaves, and...
