The Founders Lecture with Eric Foner

The Second Founding:  How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution

This event will begin at 7:00pm as a webinar.

The 13^th, 14^th and 15^th Amendments abolished slavery, defined birthright citizenship, and prohibited denial of the right to vote based on race.  Foner explores the circumstances under which these Amendments were passed, and the ways in which they’re being interpreted still, as recently as 2013, when the Supreme Court declined to use the 15^th Amendment to strike down laws which make it more difficult for non-whites to vote.  Foner is DeWitt Clinton Professor Emeritus of History at Columbia University, and winner of the Pulitzer, Bancroft and Lincoln Prizes, as well as multiple other awards and honors.