The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution by Eric Foner

The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution

Eric Foner

304 pages first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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An authoritative history by the preeminent scholar of the Civil War era, The Second Founding traces the arc of the three foundational Reconstruction amendments from their origins in antebellum activism and adoption amidst intense postwar politics ...

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