Winston-Salem Journal

Foner writes timely new book on Reconstruction amendments

It took the United States two tries to get the Constitution right. The first time was at the 1787 Constitutional Convention. The second time was during Reconstruction, the 12-year period after the ...

The Legacy of the Reconstruction Era’s Black Political Leaders

Highlighting Black political leadership provides a fuller picture of the diverse range of change-makers in the United States ...
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Black Reconstruction -- A Conversation Among Eric Foner, Henry Louis Gates & Kevin Young

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. NMAAHC Andrew W. Mellon Director Kevin Young moderates a discussion with prominent historians Eric Foner and Henry Louis Gates editors of the ...
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The second founding how the Civil War and Reconstruction remade the Constitution Eric Foner

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning scholar comes a timely history of the constitutional changes that built equality into the nation's foundation and how those guarantees have been shaken over time The ...