The Second Founding

A review of Eric Foner's The Second Founding.

Eric Foner has helped us better understand the ambiguous consequences of what were almost always only partial victories.

A new three-part PBS documentary explores the failure of Reconstruction and the Redemption of the South.

While they advanced African American rights, they had serious flaws, Eric Foner writes.

The historical context of the amendments passed in the wake of the Civil War, Eric Foner argues, are widely misunderstood.