History Now Essay The Reconstruction Amendments: Official Documents as Social History Eric Foner Government and Civics 9, 10, 11, 12, 13+ On June 13, 1866, Thaddeus Stevens, the Republican floor leader in the House of Representatives and the nation’s most prominent Radical Republican, rose to address his Congressional colleagues on the Fourteenth Amendment to the... Appears in: 2 | Primary Sources on Slavery Winter 2004
Video: Inside The Vault Inside the Vault: Washington's Crossing of the Delaware River Government and Civics 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13+ On January 6, 2022, our curators were joined by Dr. Phillip Hamilton to learn about George Washington’s crossing of the Delaware River on December 25–26, 1776, and the Battle of Trenton. We discussed Washington’s orders to his troops...
History Now Essay Reconstruction and the Remaking of the Constitution Eric Foner Government and Civics Reprinted by permission of Eric Foner from the preface to his book The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution (Norton, 2019) The Civil War and the Reconstruction period that followed form the... Appears in: 55 | Examining Reconstruction Fall 2019