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 

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