{"product_id":"freedoms-gained-and-lost-reconstruction-and-its-meanings-150-years-later-9780823298150","title":"Freedoms Gained and Lost: Reconstruction and Its Meanings 150 Years Later","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cblockquote\u003eReconstruction is a complex, often overlooked, and misunderstood period of American history, with thirteen essays exploring the struggles to establish and maintain meaningful freedoms for America's Black population. Despite the legal form of the three key Reconstruction Amendments to the U.S. Constitution, most state constitutions were overturned by the end of the century, and even the former are not necessarily safe. Gaining one freedom can endanger another, and how we remember Reconstruction continues to influence politics, especially race. \u003c\/blockquote\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat\u003c\/strong\u003e: Hardback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLength\u003c\/strong\u003e: 272 pages\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublication date\u003c\/strong\u003e: 07 December 2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher\u003c\/strong\u003e: Fordham University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne of the most complex, overlooked, and misunderstood periods in American history is Reconstruction. This volume's thirteen essays explore the various struggles to fulfill President Abraham Lincoln's promise of a \"new birth of freedom\" in the years following the Civil War, as well as the counter-efforts to undermine these struggles. The forms these struggles took varied enormously, extending geographically beyond the former Confederacy, influencing political and racial thought internationally, and remain open to contestation even today.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe fight to establish and maintain meaningful freedoms for America's Black population led to the apparent concrete and permanent legal form of the three key Reconstruction Amendments to the U.S. Constitution, as well as the revised state constitutions. However, almost all of the latter were overturned by the end of the century, and even the former are not necessarily out of jeopardy. Struggles over freedom, citizenship, and rights can be seen in a variety of venues. Gaining one freedom might endanger another.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHow we remember Reconstruction and what we do with that memory continues to influence politics, especially the politics of race, in the contemporary United States. The essays collected here offer analysis of educational and professional expansion, legal history, armed resistance, the fate of Black soldiers, international diplomacy post-1865, and much more. They draw attention to some of the vital achievements of the Reconstruction period while reminding us that freedoms can be won but can also be lost.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDimension\u003c\/strong\u003e: 229 x 152 (mm)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN-13\u003c\/strong\u003e: 9780823298150\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Shulph Ink","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":44095682281722,"sku":"9780823298150","price":89.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0522\/4297\/2845\/products\/1646267891625_book.jpg?v=1646935697","url":"https:\/\/shulphink.com\/products\/freedoms-gained-and-lost-reconstruction-and-its-meanings-150-years-later-9780823298150","provider":"Shulph Ink","version":"1.0","type":"link"}