He is one of only two persons to serve as President of the Organization of American Historians, American Historical Association, and Society of American Historians. This program was presented in conjunction with the Center’s exhibit Civil War and Reconstruction: The Battle for Freedom and Equality.Įric Foner, DeWitt Clinton Professor Emeritus of History at Columbia University, specializes in the Civil War and Reconstruction, slavery, and 19th-century America. He sits down with National Constitution Center President Jeffrey Rosen. Foner traces the arc of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the Constitution-the “Reconstruction amendments”-from their dramatic pre-Civil War origins to today, detailing how they changed our founding document and shaped American history.
Pultizer Prize-winning historian Eric Foner tells the story of the battle to inscribe equality into the Constitution.
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