Eric Foner

Give Me Liberty! is the #1 book in the U.S. history survey course because it works in the classroom. A single-author text by a leader in the field, Give Me Liberty! delivers an authoritative, accessible, concise, and integrated American history. Updated with powerful new scholarship on borderlands and the West, the Fifth Edition brings new interactive History Skills Tutorials and Norton InQuizitive for History, the award-winning adaptive quizzing tool. The best-selling Seagull Edition is also available in full color for the first time.

How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution

The Second Founding

Andrew Marti

The Reconstruction is not something that ended 150 years ago, instead, its ideals are fought today. The Reconstruction remains vital to our current national conversation, asking us questions like who is entitled to citizenship, who can vote, and what is the balance of power between the federal and state governments. Foner reviews the story behind the amendments that came out of the Reconstruction (13th, 14th, and 15th). We have failed to implement these ideas thus far, but the battle continues.

The Second Founding How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution

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