Podcasts about reconstruction remade

This year, Big Books and Bold Ideas is introducing an occasional series that will feature books on democracy. That series begins as we mark the third anniversary of the Jan. 6 insurrection. To gain context, we invited three historians and authors from different regions of the country to reflect on this American moment. Can history be a guide to where we are? Do we have the chaos and divisiveness we deserve? How do we approach what comes next with clarity and perspective?Guests:Carol Anderson a historian and professor of African-American studies at Emory University. She's the author of many books, including “White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide” and “One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression is Destroying our Democracy.” Elizabeth Cobbs is a historian, an author and the Melbern Glasscock Chair at Texas A&M University. Her most recent book is “Fearless Women: Feminist Patriots from Abigail Adams to Beyoncé.” Eric Foner is one of the nation's leading historians and the author of many award-winning books on the Civil War and Reconstruction, including “The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution.” He is also a professor emeritus at Columbia University. Subscribe to Big Books and Bold Ideas with Kerri Miller podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, RSS or anywhere you get your podcasts.Subscribe to the Thread newsletter for the latest book and author news and must-read recommendations.

Historians Ned Blackhawk and Brenda Child join for a conversation on Blackhawk's national bestseller, The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History, which just won the National Book Award. They explore five centuries of U.S. history to shed light on the central role Indigenous peoples have played in shaping our nation's narrative. Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO of the National Constitution Center, moderates. This program was streamed live on November 1, 2023.  Resources:   Ned Blackhawk, The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History    Brenda Child, Away From Home: American Indian Boarding School Experiences, 1879-2000  Brenda Child, Boarding School Seasons: American Indian Families, 1900-1940  Claudio Saunt, Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory  Jeffrey Ostler, Surviving Genocide: Native Nations and the United States from the American Revolution to Bleeding Kansas  Eric Foner, The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution  Ned Blackhawk, Violence over the Land: Indians and Empires in the early American West  Brenda Child, Holding Our World Together: Ojibwe Women and the Survival of Community  Brenda Child, My Grandfather's Knocking Sticks: Ojibwe Family Life and Labor on the Reservation  Brenda Child and Brian Klopotek, Indian Subjects: Hemispheric Perspectives on the History of Indigenous Education  Michael Witgen, Seeing Red: Indigenous Land, American Expansion, and the Political Economy of Plunder in North America    Questions or comments about the show? Email us at podcast@constitutioncenter.org.  Continue today's conversation on Facebook and Twitter using @ConstitutionCtr.   Sign up to receive Constitution Weekly, our email roundup of constitutional news and debate, at bit.ly/constitutionweekly.   You can find transcripts for each episode on the podcast pages in our Media Library. 

Historians Ned Blackhawk and Brenda Child join for a conversation on Blackhawk's national bestseller, The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History—a sweeping retelling of American history. They explore five centuries of U.S. history to shed light on the central role Indigenous peoples have played in shaping our nation's narrative. Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO of the National Constitution Center, moderates. Additional Resources Ned Blackhawk, The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History The Declaration of Independence Pontiac's War Brenda Child, Away From Home: American Indian Boarding School Experiences, 1879-2000 Brenda Child, Boarding School Seasons: American Indian Families, 1900-1940 Claudio Saunt, Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory Jeffrey Ostler, Surviving Genocide: Native Nations and the United States from the American Revolution to Bleeding Kansas Articles of Confederation Naturalization Act 1790 Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857) Eric Foner, The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution Ned Blackhawk, Violence over the Land: Indians and Empires in the early American West Brenda Child, Holding Our World Together: Ojibwe Women and the Survival of Community Brenda Child, My Grandfather's Knocking Sticks: Ojibwe Family Life and Labor on the Reservation Brenda Child and Brian Klopotek, Indian Subjects: Hemispheric Perspectives on the History of Indigenous Education Michael Witgen, Seeing Red: Indigenous Land, American Expansion, and the Political Economy of Plunder in North America Stay Connected and Learn More Continue the conversation on Facebook and Twitter using @ConstitutionCtr. Sign up to receive Constitution Weekly, our email roundup of constitutional news and debate, at bit.ly/constitutionweekly. Please subscribe to Live at the National Constitution Center and our companion podcast We the People on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app.

The Reconstruction Amendments and How They've Created Our Political World Today   Guest: Eric Foner is DeWitt Clinton Professor Emeritus of History at Columbia University.  He is the author of several books including, Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men; The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery which won the Pulitzer; and The Second Founding : How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution.   The post KPFA Special – Volatile Times: The Political History of the Civil War Part III appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Eric Foner is DeWitt Clinton Professor Emeritus of History at Columbia University.  He is the author of several books including, Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men; The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery which won the Pulitzer; and The Second Founding : How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution. The post KPFA Special – Volatile Times: The Political History of the Civil War Part II appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Eric Foner is DeWitt Clinton Professor Emeritus of History at Columbia University.  He is the author of several books including, Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men; The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery which won the Pulitzer; and The Second Founding : How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution.   The post KPFA Special – Volatile Times: The Political History of the Civil War Part 1 – The 1850s appeared first on KPFA.

The Public Debt Clause of the 14th Amendment states: “The Validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law …. shall not be questioned.” Recent debates—including the most recent standoff between President Joe Biden and Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy over the debt ceiling—have raised the question as to whether this clause can be invoked to overcome the crisis. In today's episode, we drill down on why the public debt clause was written, how it's been interpreted by the Supreme Court, and how things might play out today if it were used by President Biden. Guests Pulitzer-Prize winning historian Eric Foner, author of The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution, and law professor Gerard Magliocca, author of American Founding Son: John Bingham and the Invention of the Fourteenth Amendment, discuss this often-overlooked section of the 14th Amendment written at the end of the Civil War. Questions or comments about the show? Email us at podcast@constitutioncenter.org. Continue today's conversation on Facebook and Twitter using @ConstitutionCtr. Sign up to receive Constitution Weekly, our email roundup of constitutional news and debate, at bit.ly/constitutionweekly. You can find transcripts for each episode on the podcast pages in our Media Library.

Professor Emeritus of History at Columbia University Eric Foner discusses his book The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution. By […]

Pramila Jayapal is head of the Congressional Progressive Caucus and represents Seattle in the House. She will explain how, as a young immigrant from India, she went from being an investment banker to a lifelong organizer. Her book, “Use the Power You Have: A Brown Woman's Guide to Politics and Political Change,” is out now. Also historian Eric Foner talks about about voting rights and voter suppression, about who gets to be a citizen, the rights of undocumented immigrants, and about the roots of mass incarceration -- --they all relate to the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments, part of the country's attempt to redefine citizenship after the end of slavery. His book, “The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution,” is out now in paperback.

Pramila Jayapal is head of the Congressional Progressive Caucus and represents Seattle in the House. She will explain how, as a young immigrant from India, she went from being an investment banker to a lifelong organizer. Her book, “Use the Power You Have: A Brown Woman's Guide to Politics and Political Change,” is out now. Also historian Eric Foner talks about about voting rights and voter suppression, about who gets to be a citizen, the rights of undocumented immigrants, and about the roots of mass incarceration -- --they all relate to the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments, part of the country's attempt to redefine citizenship after the end of slavery. His book, “The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution,” is out now in paperback.

Pramila Jayapal is head of the Congressional Progressive Caucus and represents Seattle in the House. She will explain how, as a young immigrant from India, she went from being an investment banker to a lifelong organizer. Her book, “Use the Power You Have: A Brown Woman's Guide to Politics and Political Change,” is out now.Also historian Eric Foner talks about about voting rights and voter suppression, about who gets to be a citizen, the rights of undocumented immigrants, and about the roots of mass incarceration -- --they all relate to the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments, part of the country's attempt to redefine citizenship after the end of slavery. His book, “The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution,” is out now in paperback.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Application. In the year of the 150th anniversary of the Fifteenth Amendment Columbia University history professor and historian Eric Foner said about the Fifteenth Amendment as well as its history during the Reconstruction era and Post-Reconstruction era: It's a remarkable accomplishment given that slavery was such a dominant institution before the Civil War. But the history of the 15th Amendment also shows rights can never be taken for granted: Things can be achieved and things can be taken away. Reconstruction. African Americans called the amendment the nation's "second birth" and a "greater revolution than that of 1776" according to historian Eric Foner in his book The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution. The first black person known to vote after the amendment's adoption was Thomas Mundy Peterson, who cast his ballot on March 31, 1870, in a Perth Amboy, New Jersey referendum election adopting a revised city charter. African Americans—many of them newly freed slaves—put their newfound freedom to use, voting in scores of black candidates. During Reconstruction, 16 black men served in Congress and 2,000 black men served in elected local, state and federal positions according to Columbia University history professor Eric Foner. In United States v Reese (1876), the first U.S. Supreme Court decision interpreting the Fifteenth Amendment, the Court interpreted the amendment narrowly, upholding ostensibly race-neutral limitations on suffrage including poll taxes, literacy tests, and a grandfather clause that exempted citizens from other voting requirements if their grandfathers had been registered voters. The Court also stated that the amendment does not confer the right of suffrage, but it invests citizens of the United States with the right of exemption from discrimination in the exercise of the elective franchise on account of their race, color, or previous condition of servitude, and empowers Congress to enforce that right by "appropriate legislation". The Court wrote: The Fifteenth Amendment does not confer the right of suffrage upon anyone. It prevents the States, or the United States, however, from giving preference, in this particular, to one citizen of the United States over another on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. Before its adoption, this could be done. It was as much within the power of a State to exclude citizens of the United States from voting on account of race, & color, as it was on account of age, property, or education. Now it is not. If citizens of one race having certain qualifications are permitted by law to vote, those of another having the same qualifications must be. Previous to this amendment, there was no constitutional guaranty against this discrimination: now there is. It follows that the amendment has invested the citizens of the United States with a new constitutional right which is within the protecting power of Congress. That right is an exemption from discrimination in the exercise of the elective franchise on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. Under the express provisions of the second section of the amendment, Congress may enforce it by "appropriate legislation".

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.  The Book Club with Jeffrey Sachs is brought to you by the SDG Academy, the flagship education initiative of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network. Learn more and get involved at bookclubwithjeffreysachs.org.Footnotes:The Second Founding 13th, 14th & 15th US Amendments History of the USAmerican Civil War Three-fifths Clause“Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness”Timeline of the Revolution Plantation States Slavery & SerfdomAbraham LincolnAbolitionismFugitive Slave ActsDebt LimitEmancipation ProclamationMarx & Engels on the Civil WarBirthright Citizenship InsurrectionFederalism JurisprudenceUS Electoral ProcessTexas House Passes Voting Bill The Dunning SchoolW.E.B. Du Bois: Black ReconstructionJim Crow Laws1619 Project Critical Race TheoryMitch McConnell 

We discuss: - Curating people - Moral Monday marches - Black Wall Street - Wilmington massacre of 1898 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilmington_insurrection_of_1898 - Jacob Lawrence's Migration Series - https://assets.moma.org/documents/moma_catalogue_444_300295430.pdf - Wilmington on Fire (documentary film) - https://vimeo.com/ondemand/wilmingtononfire - The Negro and Fusion Politics in North Carolina, 1894-1901 by Helen Edmonds - https://uncpress.org/book/9780807855492/the-negro-and-fusion-politics-in-north-carolina-1894-1901/ - Battle of Forks Road - https://northcarolinahistory.org/encyclopedia/battle-of-forks-road/ - Wilmington Ten - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilmington_Ten - The true story behind the Wilmington Ten by Larry Reni Thomas - https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/3810278-the-true-story-behind-the-wilmington-ten - The Fire of Freedom, Abraham Galloway and the Slaves' Civil War - https://uncpress.org/book/9781469621906/the-fire-of-freedom/ - The Second Founding, How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution, by Eric Foner - https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393358520 - Grandfather clause - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandfather_clause - Maestro William Henry Curry - https://www.wunc.org/post/born-conduct-meet-maestro-curry - William Paul Thomas - http://www.williampaulthomas.com/ - Pete Sack - http://petesack.com/ - The Education of Blacks in the South, 1860-1935 by James D. Anderson - https://uncpress.org/book/9780807842218/the-education-of-blacks-in-the-south-1860-1935/ - The Front Lines short film - https://www.blackonblackproject.com/the-front-lines-film - Black Reconstruction, Book by W. E. B. Du Bois - http://www.webdubois.org/wdb-BlackReconst.html - What Truth Sounds Like: Robert F. Kennedy, James Baldwin, and Our Unfinished Conversation About Race in America by Michael Eric Dyson - https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250295927 - Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World, by David Brion Davis - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/178670.Inhuman_Bondage - A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2767.A_People_s_History_of_the_United_States - Slave Patrols: Law and Violence in Virginia and the Carolinas by Sally E. Hadden - https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674012349   https://www.blackonblackproject.com/about https://www.michaelsherroidwilliams.com/   Hosted by Matthew Dols http://www.matthewdols.com

We discuss: - Curating people - Moral Monday marches - Black Wall Street - Wilmington massacre of 1898 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilmington_insurrection_of_1898 - Jacob Lawrence's Migration Series - https://assets.moma.org/documents/moma_catalogue_444_300295430.pdf - Wilmington on Fire (documentary film) - https://vimeo.com/ondemand/wilmingtononfire - The Negro and Fusion Politics in North Carolina, 1894-1901 by Helen Edmonds - https://uncpress.org/book/9780807855492/the-negro-and-fusion-politics-in-north-carolina-1894-1901/ - Battle of Forks Road - https://northcarolinahistory.org/encyclopedia/battle-of-forks-road/ - Wilmington Ten - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilmington_Ten - The true story behind the Wilmington Ten by Larry Reni Thomas - https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/3810278-the-true-story-behind-the-wilmington-ten - The Fire of Freedom, Abraham Galloway and the Slaves' Civil War - https://uncpress.org/book/9781469621906/the-fire-of-freedom/ - The Second Founding, How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution, by Eric Foner - https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393358520 - Grandfather clause - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandfather_clause - Maestro William Henry Curry - https://www.wunc.org/post/born-conduct-meet-maestro-curry - William Paul Thomas - http://www.williampaulthomas.com/ - Pete Sack - http://petesack.com/ - The Education of Blacks in the South, 1860-1935 by James D. Anderson - https://uncpress.org/book/9780807842218/the-education-of-blacks-in-the-south-1860-1935/ - The Front Lines short film - https://www.blackonblackproject.com/the-front-lines-film - Black Reconstruction, Book by W. E. B. Du Bois - http://www.webdubois.org/wdb-BlackReconst.html - What Truth Sounds Like: Robert F. Kennedy, James Baldwin, and Our Unfinished Conversation About Race in America by Michael Eric Dyson - https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250295927 - Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World, by David Brion Davis - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/178670.Inhuman_Bondage - A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2767.A_People_s_History_of_the_United_States - Slave Patrols: Law and Violence in Virginia and the Carolinas by Sally E. Hadden - https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674012349   https://www.blackonblackproject.com/about https://www.michaelsherroidwilliams.com/   Hosted by Matthew Dols http://www.matthewdols.com

Dr. Eric Foner, educator, historian, and Pulitzer Prize-winning author, is often regarded as the "dean of Reconstruction historians." Professor Emeritus of History at Columbia University, Dr. Foner has used his career as a scholar to construct a more truthful narrative of the Civil War and Reconstruction. This year Dr. Foner was named the 2020 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award honoree for Lifetime Achievement for most recent book, The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution. Join us at the City Club as he discusses his book.

Episode SummaryHistorian and optimist Eric Foner grew up through McCarthyism and the Civil Rights Movement and learned that one of the best ways to interpret history is that no matter how things are there is an opportunity to make them better. Syd and Eric talk about how the issues of the past are the issues of today, the dangers of romanticizing our history, and how some things never change. Professor Foner gives an unvarnished primer in American History and you might be surprised at how current it sounds, in this episode of The Sydcast.Syd FinkelsteinSyd Finkelstein is the Steven Roth Professor of Management at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. He holds a Master's degree from the London School of Economics and a Ph.D. from Columbia University. Professor Finkelstein has published 25 books and 90 articles, including the bestsellers Why Smart Executives Fail and Superbosses: How Exceptional Leaders Master the Flow of Talent, which LinkedIn Chairman Reid Hoffman calls the “leadership guide for the Networked Age.” He is also a Fellow of the Academy of Management, a consultant and speaker to leading companies around the world, and a top 25 on the global Thinkers 50 list of top management gurus. Professor Finkelstein's research and consulting work often relies on in-depth and personal interviews with hundreds of people, an experience that led him to create and host his own podcast, The Sydcast, to uncover and share the stories of all sorts of fascinating people in business, sports, entertainment, politics, academia, and everyday life. Eric FonerEric Foner, DeWitt Clinton Professor Emeritus of History at Columbia University, is one of this country's most prominent historians. He received his doctoral degree at Columbia under the supervision of Richard Hofstadter. He is one of only two persons to serve as president of the three major professional organizations: the Organization of American Historians, American Historical Association, and Society of American Historians, and one of a handful to have won the Bancroft and Pulitzer Prizes in the same year.Professor Foner's publications have concentrated on the intersections of intellectual, political, and social history and the history of American race relations. His books have been translated into Chinese, Korean, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, and Spanish. Eric Foner is a winner of the Great Teacher Award from the Society of Columbia Graduates (1991), and the Presidential Award for Outstanding Teaching from Columbia University (2006). He was named Scholar of the Year by the New York Council for the Humanities in 1995. In 2006, he received the Kidger Award for Excellence in Teaching and Scholarship from the New England History Teachers Association. In 2014 he was awarded the Gold Medal by the National Institute of Social Sciences. In 2020 he received the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Lifetime Achievement (the award honors literature that confronts racism and explores diversity), and the Roy Rosenzweig Distinguished Service Award from the Organization of American Historians. He is an elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the British Academy, the American Philosophical Society, and the American Academy of Political and Social Science. He has been awarded honorary degrees by Iona College, Queen Mary University of London, the State University of New York, Dartmouth College, Lehigh University, and Princeton University. He serves on the editorial boards of Past and Present and The Nation, and has written for the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, London Review of Books, and many other publications, and has appeared on numerous television and radio shows, including Charlie Rose, Book Notes, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, The Colbert Report, Bill Moyers Journal, Fresh Air, and All Things Considered, and in historical documentaries on PBS and the History Channel. He was the on-camera historian for "Freedom: A History of Us," on PBS in 2003 and the chief historical advisor for the award-winning PBS documentary series on Reconstruction and its aftermath broadcast in 2019. He has lectured extensively to both academic and non-academic audiences. Professor Foner retired from teaching in 2018. Insights from this episode:Details on Reconstruction in America, what it was, what went wrong, and how it changed the world.Strategies for staying objective and finding truth when everyone seems to be living in different realities at the same time in history.How to be hopeful about when current events make the future seem bleak.Benefits of learning history, how it shapes our ideals today, and what our present can teach us about our future.Details about Abraham Lincoln and what his principles and methods can teach us today about developing our own standards.Reasons why books written about history are subjective and need to be more objective.Quotes from the show:“Things are always inevitable after they've happened.” – Eric Foner“I grew up understanding how fragile liberty is in our country, or in any other country.” – Eric Foner“It's not just a historical debate. The issues of Reconstruction are the issues of today.” – Eric FonerOn Reconstruction: “The tragedy was not that it was attempted, but that it failed and that left, for a century almost, this question of racial justice in the United States.” – Eric Foner“History is in the eye of the beholder.” – Syd Finkelstein“Being objective does not mean you have an empty mind … it means you have an open mind. You have to be willing to change your mind.” – Eric Foner“History is an ongoing process of reevaluation reinterpretation. There is never just the end of the story.” – Eric FonerOn Professor Foner's lecture on Reconstruction: “It's a statement about what kind of country should America be.” – Syd FinkelsteinOn what a professor does: “The creation and dissemination of knowledge.” – Syd FinkelsteinOn Abraham Lincoln: “We've had many presidents, including the current one, who can not stand criticism, Lincoln welcomed it. He thought he could learn. He thought his entire life he could learn new things.” – Eric Foner“That's what makes you a historian. You have to be able to weigh evidence, judge evidence, balance things out.” – Eric Foner“The historical narrative is an act of the imagination by the historian … what you leave out is as important as what you put in.” – Eric FonerOn the primary system of voting: “It enables the motivated electorate, which is a small percentage, to have an unbelievable influence.” – Syd FinkelsteinBooks by Eric FonerFree Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party Before the Civil War (1970; reissued with new preface 1995) Tom Paine and Revolutionary America (1976)Nothing But Freedom: Emancipation and Its Legacy (1983)Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877 (1988) (winner, among other awards, of the Bancroft Prize, Parkman Prize, and Los Angeles Times Book Award) The Reader's Companion to American History (with John A. Garraty, 1991)The Story of American Freedom (1998)Who Owns History? Rethinking the Past in a Changing World (2002) Give Me Liberty! An American History (2004) The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery (2010) (winner, among other awards, of the Bancroft Prize, Pulitzer Prize for History, and The Lincoln Prize) Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad (2015) (winner of the American History Book Prize by the New-York Historical Society)The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution (2019)Lectures by Eric FonerDuring the 2014-15 academic year, his Columbia University course on The Civil War and Reconstruction was made available online, free of charge, via ColumbiaX and EdX. They can also be found on YouTube.PART 1: THE COMING OF THE CIVIL WARPART 2: THE CIVIL WARPART 3: RECONSTRUCTIONStay Connected: Syd FinkelsteinWebsite: http://thesydcast.comLinkedIn: Sydney FinkelsteinTwitter: @sydfinkelsteinFacebook: The SydcastInstagram: The SydcastEric FonerWebsite: www.ericfoner.comSubscribe to our podcast + download each episode on Stitcher, iTunes, and Spotify.This episode was produced and managed by Podcast Laundry (www.podcastlaundry.com)

Part III: The Reconstruction Amendments and How They've Created Our Political World Today. Guest: Eric Foner, the DeWitt Clinton Professor Emeritus of History at Columbia University. His book, The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery won the Pulitzer Prize. His latest book is The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution. The post Volatile Times: The Political History of the Civil War Part III appeared first on KPFA.

Part II: Abraham Lincoln, the Radical Republicans & Andrew Johnson. Guest: Eric Foner, DeWitt Clinton Professor Emeritus of History at Columbia University. His book The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery won the Pulitzer. His latest book is called The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution. The post Volatile Times: The Political History of the Civil War – Part II appeared first on KPFA.

Part I: The 1850s. Guest: Eric Foner, DeWitt Clinton Professor Emeritus of History at Columbia University. His book The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery won the Pulitzer. His latest book is called The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution.   The post Volatile Times: The Political History of the Civil War – Part I appeared first on KPFA.

0:08 – Eric Foner, professor of History at Columbia, author of The Second Founding: How the Civil war and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution. 0:34 – Mark Arax is an author and journalist, focused on California and the West. His latest book is The Dreamt Land: Chasing Water and Dust Across California. 1:08 – Betty Reid Soskin – for the hour – the oldest living national park service ranger whose life history is chronicled in her new book, Sign My Name to Freedom: A Memoir of a Pioneering Life. The post Mark Arax: the worlds of water and lands behind the California Dream; Plus: Betty Reid Soskin on her 92 years of service and struggle (rebroadcast) appeared first on KPFA.

Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Eric Foner discusses his newest book The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution with Chris Hayes of MSNBC and The Nation, in an erudite, energetic and surprisingly funny conversation about the Reconstruction period and its enormous relevance for contemporary American life and politics. (Recorded at St. Joseph's College on September 29, 2019.)

Could the Republican defense of Trump in the impeachment proceedings open the door to a watershed victory for Democrats across the board? Even before Nancy Pelosi finally agreed that it was time to begin impeachment proceedings, the Democrats' prospects for a sweep of the 202 elections were good. That's what Stan Greenberg says -- he's a longtime pollster and adviser to Democratic presidents from Clinton to Obama. He's also a bestselling author, with a new book out – it has the wonderful title 'R.I.P. G.O.P.' Also: Jeet Heer of The Nation magazine considers the Republicans' defense of Trump – that Joe Biden's son Hunter Biden really was corrupt in his dealings in Ukraine, and that he really did influence his father's work as vice president, and so Trump was right to ask the president of Ukraine for more information. Plus: historian Eric Foner talks about voter suppression and the right to vote, about who gets to be a citizen, what rights undocumented immigrants have, and about the history of mass incarceration--and how they all relate to the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments, part of the country's attempt to redefine citizenship after the end of slavery. His new book is 'The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution.' how the New America is Dooming the Republicans. We spoke with him about the 2020 election BEFORE impeachment proceedings began—

The Reconstruction Amendments and How They've Created Our Political World Today. Guest: Eric Foner, the DeWitt Clinton Professor Emeritus of History at Columbia University. His book, The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery won the Pulitzer Prize. His latest book is The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution. The post Volatile Times: The Political History of the Civil War Part III appeared first on KPFA.

Abraham Lincoln, the Radical Republicans & Andrew Johnson. Guest: Eric Foner, the DeWitt Clinton Professor Emeritus of History at Columbia University. His book, The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery won the Pulitzer Prize. His latest book is called The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution. The post Volatile Times: The Political History of the Civil War Part II appeared first on KPFA.

Part I: The 1850s. Guest: Eric Foner, DeWitt Clinton Professor Emeritus of History at Columbia University. His book The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery won the Pulitzer. His latest book is called The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution. The post Volatile Times: The Political History of the Civil War Part I appeared first on KPFA.