insider.si.edu

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 ...
Reason

Part VI: Slavery and the Reconstruction Amendments

An Introduction To Constitutional Law Video Library: Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857), The Slaughter-House Cases (1873), Bradwell v. Illinois (1873), U.S. v. Cruikshank (1876), Strauder v. West Virginia ...
Washington Examiner

The revolutionary nature of the 13th Amendment

This week marks the 160th anniversary of the passage of the 13th Amendment. Congress, dominated by free state Republicans after the secession of slaveholding states, worked for 18 months to secure ...
LancasterOnline

Lancaster's Stevens-Smith history center joins National Park Service network on Reconstruction

LancasterHistory's newest museum has been accepted into a National Park Service network dedicated to the U.S. era of Reconstruction. The Thaddeus Stevens & Lydia Hamilton Smith Center for History and ...
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 ...
Publishers Weekly

We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution

Control of the U.S. Constitution as a “living” and inevitably changing text has passed from the hands of the people to those of elites, argues bestselling historian Lepore (These Truths) in this ...