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03214aim a2200373Ii 4500 001 EF30F010172C11EA8B64444297128E48 003 SILO 005 20191205010028 007 sd fungnnmmned 008 121004t20192019mdunnnn h n eng d 020 $a 1980056676 020 $a 9781980056676 028 01 $a C06018 $b Recorded Books 035 $a (OCoLC)1114285789 040 $a RECBC $b eng $e rda $c RECBC $d OCLCO $d OCLCQ $d OCLCF $d KSL $d IH9 $d DUD $d LE# $d SILO 043 $a n-us--- 100 1 $a Foner, Eric, $d 1943- $e author. 245 14 $a The second founding : $b how the Civil War and Reconstruction remade the Constitution / $c Eric Foner. 250 $a Unabridged. 264 1 $a Prince Frederick, MD : $b Recorded Books, $c [2019] 300 $a 7 audio discs (7 hr., 30 min.) : $b CD audio, digital ; $c 4 3/4 in. 306 $a 073000 500 $a In container (17 cm.). 500 $a Title from container. 505 0 $a Introduction: Origins of the Second Founding -- What is Freedom?: The Thirteenth Amendment -- Toward Equality: The Fourteenth Amendment -- The Right to Vote: The Fifteenth Amendment -- Justice and Jurisprudence -- Epilogue. 511 0 $a Narrated by Donald Corren. 520 $a From the Pulitzer Prize-winning scholar, 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 Declaration of Independence announced equality as an American ideal, but it took the Civil War and the subsequent adoption of three constitutional amendments to establish that ideal as American law. The Reconstruction amendments abolished slavery, guaranteed all persons due process and equal protection of the law, and equipped black men with the right to vote. They established the principle of birthright citizenship and guaranteed the privileges and immunities of all citizens. The federal government, not the states, was charged with enforcement, reversing the priority of the original Constitution and the Bill of Rights. In grafting the principle of equality onto the Constitution, these revolutionary changes marked the second founding of the United States. Eric Foner's compact, insightful history traces the arc of these pivotal amendments from their dramatic origins in pre-Civil War mass meetings of African-American "colored citizens" and in Republican party politics to their virtual nullification in the late nineteenth century. A series of momentous decisions by the Supreme Court narrowed the rights guaranteed in the amendments, while the states actively undermined them. The Jim Crow system was the result. Again today there are serious political challenges to birthright citizenship, voting rights, due process, and equal protection of the law. Like all great works of history, this one informs our understanding of the present as well as the past: knowledge and vigilance are always necessary to secure our basic rights. 700 1 $a Corren, Donald, $e narrator. 710 2 $a Recorded Books, Inc. 941 $a 2 945 $a cdab 952 $l CBPF522 $d 20200724011404.0 952 $l TCPG826 $d 20191205010608.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=EF30F010172C11EA8B64444297128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search