Episode 9: Eric Foner, The Second Founding

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Join Professor Jeffrey Sachs and Pulitzer Prize–winning historian
Eric Foner, as they discuss Foner's latest novel, The Second
Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the
Constitution.

Together,  they discuss this transformative era in American
history, and how the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments remain
strong tools for achieving the American ideal of equality, if
only we will take them up. 

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Footnotes:


The Second Founding 

13th, 14th & 15th US Amendments 

History of the US

American Civil War 

Three-fifths Clause

“Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness”

Timeline of the Revolution 

Plantation States 

Slavery & Serfdom

Abraham Lincoln

Abolitionism

Fugitive Slave Acts

Debt Limit

Emancipation Proclamation

Marx & Engels on the Civil War

Birthright Citizenship 

Insurrection

Federalism 

Jurisprudence

US Electoral Process

Texas House Passes Voting Bill 

The Dunning School

W.E.B. Du Bois: Black Reconstruction



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