Category: 14th Amendment
Eric Foner Interviewed by Ed Ayers about Reconstruction and the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments for Backstory
The radio show Backstory With the History Guys had a good show with historian Ed Ayers interviewing the godfather of modern Reconstruction studies Eric Foner….
Gen. Longstreet’s Infamous Letter: On Joining the Republicans & “Betraying” the Confederates 1867
General James Longstreet was one of the most respected military leaders of the Confederacy after the war. That is, until he published an infamous letter…
Great Interview With Eric Foner in New Yorker on His New Book
Eric Foner’s new book The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution is due out in a week. The book by…
NY Times Article by Eric Foner on “The Lost Promise of Reconstruction”
The New York Times has an interesting article from historian Eric Foner on The Lost Promise of Reconstruction. From the article: Among the unanticipated consequences…
“Plessy v. Ferguson” Had Its Roots in the Destruction of Reconstruction: Article by David Cole
David Cole, national legal director of the ACLU and a professor at Georgetown University Law Center, has an interesting article in The Nation on the…
David Blight on the Centrality of the 14th Amendment to Reconstruction’s Legacy
Several years ago Pulitzer Prize winning historian David Blight published an essay in The Atlantic on the centrality of the 14th Amendment that is well…
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