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Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Professor Allen Guelzo and Jeffrey Rosen talk about the 13th,14th and 15th Amendments. Gettysburg College Director Allen Guelzo talks about the ...

Although the 13th Amendment ended slavery, it left uncertain the status of those who had been kept in bondage. The infamous Dred Scott case had held that Blacks had no rights that whites were bound to ...

“The 13th, 14th and 15th amendments were designed to enshrine Lincoln’s promise of a new America.” The amendment’s first section begins: “All persons born or naturalized in the United ...

“The 13th, 14th and 15th amendments were designed to enshrine Lincoln’s promise of a new America.” However, as so often is the case, this reaffirmed American ideal fell short of realit ...

1, p. 283) or Charles Sumner's effort to broaden the language of the Thirteenth Amendment, (Vol. 1, p. 434), Jacob Howard's Speech Introducing the Fourteenth Amendment to the Senate (Vol.

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Professor Allen Guelzo and Jeffrey Rosen talk about the 13th,14th and 15th Amendments. Javascript must be enabled in order to access C-SPAN videos. *This text was compiled from uncorrected Closed ...

The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution. By Eric Foner. W.W. Norton; 256 pages; $26.95 and £18.99 RECONSTRUCTION, AMERICA’S reckoning with how to rejig ...