One result of that interest is his new book, “ The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution.” It examines the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments, which banned slavery, universalized due process, and granted black men the vote. Throughout his work, Foner evinces a fascination with how the history he studies has been understood and relayed since the Civil War. “ The Fiery Trial,” his story of Lincoln’s relationship to the idea and reality of American slavery, won the Pulitzer Prize, in 2011. In 1988, he published “ Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877,” which became a standard history of the period. Over the past several decades, Eric Foner, a professor emeritus of history at Columbia, has established himself as one of the preëminent historians of the Civil War and Reconstruction. The historical context of the constitutional amendments passed in the wake of the Civil War, Eric Foner argues, are widely misunderstood.
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