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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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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...
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.
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.
Mar 13, 2018 · February 20, 2018 — Speaking at the Century Association in New York City, historian Eric Foner discusses why Reconstruction remains one of the most crucial a...
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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.
Eric Foner: Wait, stand up again, because I can't quite hear you sorry. Audience: You mentioned that only 20% of American high school graduates know about the reconstruction. Do you think there's a political reason for forgetting about this part of history? Eric Foner: That's an interesting question.
