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   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.

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   The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction . Remade the Constitution. By Eric Foner. (New York: W. W. Norton, 2019. Pp. 256. Cloth, $26.95.) In 1988, Eric Foner published one of the most important scholarly . works on the post–Civil War era: Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished . Revolution, 1863–1877

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   Sep 18, 2019 · “The Second Founding” reflects Foner’s rigorously researched, now mainstream view that Reconstruction was “a massive experiment in interracial democracy”; the changes wrought by the ...

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   Mar 1, 2022 · The current Supreme Court's failure to recognize the transformational impact of Reconstruction colors its doctrine in numerous areas, including its broad reading of state sovereign immunity, color-blind approach to racial classifications, and restrictions on congressional power to enforce the amendments.

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   Jul 1, 2024 · The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution. Sheldon Brennemann. University of Nebraska - Omaha. DOI: https://doi.org/10.24926/jsepa.v2i2.5913. Keywords: Reconstruction Era, Social Equity. Abstract. By Eric Foner. New York: WW Norton & Company, 2019. 222 pages, hardcover. Author Biography.

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   Oct 31, 2019 · “The Second Founding” tells the story of the era’s constitutional amendments. Along the way, Foner asks how we ought to interpret the compromises enshrined in the text of the new amendments...

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   Can the second founding reorient our understanding of the Reconstruction era?

   • This is where Eric Foner’s recently published book, The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution, can help reorient our understanding of the period. The Second Founding is exactly the right book to inspire a move towards a new appreciation of the Reconstruction Era as Foner wrote it with a mass audience in mind.

   "Reconstruction Never Ended": A Review of Eric Foner's Second Founding

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   Was the Reconstruction Era an afterthought?

   • Yet for all the attention paid to the war itself, the Reconstruction Era is almost treated as an afterthought. 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.

   "Reconstruction Never Ended": A Review of Eric Foner's Second Founding

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   Was the Reconstruction era a reversal of Justice?

   • 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 Never Ended": A Review of Eric Foner's Second Founding

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   Does the second founding still resonate today?

   • Eric Foner’s new book, “The Second Founding,” argues that the failed promise of Reconstruction still resonates today. Daniella Zalcman The 13th abolished slavery, in 1865. The 14th guaranteed equality and also citizenship for anyone born in America, in 1868. The 15th gave black men who were citizens the right to vote, in 1870.

   What Reconstruction-Era Laws Can Teach Our Democracy

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   What was the result of reconstruction?

   • The result was that Reconstruction’s great accomplishments emerged from a country that was still far from a full democracy. Subscribe to comment and get the full experience. Choose your plan → While they advanced African American rights, they had serious flaws, Eric Foner writes.

   Book review of The Second Founding: How the Civil War and

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   Is the second founding a good book?

   • The Second Founding is exactly the right book to inspire a move towards a new appreciation of the Reconstruction Era as Foner wrote it with a mass audience in mind. Foner focuses his attention on the debates behind and significance of the passage of the three Reconstruction Amendments, the 13th, 14th, and 15th.

   "Reconstruction Never Ended": A Review of Eric Foner's Second Founding

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   ric Foner’s The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution provides a glimpse into the historical and racial con-texts that have shaped many of the foundational legal underpinnings of the Reconstruction amendments and their implications for the United States today. The