![]() ![]() It's called "The Second Founding: How The Civil War And Reconstruction Remade The Constitution." Foner is the author of several books about the Civil War and Reconstruction and is the DeWitt Clinton Professor Emeritus of History at Columbia University.Įric Foner, welcome back to FRESH AIR. How those amendments became part of the Constitution and how they've been interpreted over the years is the subject of a new book by my guest, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Eric Foner. The 15th gave the vote to black men but not any women. ![]() a citizen and said that the state can't deprive any person of life, liberty or property without due process of law or deny anyone equal protection under the law. These are the amendments that were added to the Constitution after the Civil War in the era known as Reconstruction. ![]() Some of today's most divisive issues related to racial equality, voting rights and voter suppression, women's rights, who gets to be a citizen, mass incarceration and what is the meaning of equal justice are issues you can't fully understand without understanding the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments. ![]()
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