Cspan2. Im eric foner, Professor Emeritus of history at Columbia University coming to you from the study in my apartment opposite Columbia University in new york city im here to talk about the second founding, my book about the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments of the u. S. Constitution which were were ratified during the period of reconstruction immediately after the american civil war. The title of the book actually explains the argument the second founding. My argument is that these three amendments created a new constitution, they were not just additions to an existing structure. The 15th amendment tried to guarantee the right of africanamerican men to vote throughout the entire country. All three of these amendments have abthere were compromises it was the 15th amendment that expanded the right to vote to africanamerican men. They created the constitution we are living with today, the 14th amendment has been the 21st century where through which the courts have tremendously expanded t
I think after history at columbia university, and im coming to you from the study and my apartment officer at the university in new york city. It is where i write this is where i work. I do want to point out that the case behind me when i retire from columbia couple of year ago i had about 3,000 books in my office there. I gave the floor away to get back into my apartment here. Except for the books on that bookcase which are most of which are books written by my former about 200 of them. By graduate students undergraduates those are most valuable books to me things of my students have written in front of american history. So anyway, im here to talk about the second founding. My book about the 13, 14th, 15th amendments of the u. S. Constitution which were ratified during the period of reconstruction and immediately after the american civil war. The title of the book actually spleens the argument. The second founding. My argument is that these three amendments created a new constitution
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Good evening everyone como welcome to book passage, thank you for coming out tonight on a tuesday night, there are so many things you could be doing, you made a really good decision coming here this is a smart crowd you are going to be mesmerized and just fascinated by the program we have for you tonight. In that vein, we ask that you turn your cell phones off because you wont need them, you can look your cell phone for the next hour i guarantee it. It was good to be completely mesmerized by our author, that we are so proud to bring you today. Thank you for supporting book passage. We are an independent bookstore one of the very few remaining independent bookstores. [applause] thank you. We are very proud of that fact. Thanks for coming to our core the madeira location we have a beautiful store in the siri building in San Francisco. If youve never been there, its a beautiful store, go in, by a few books and have dinner in the city. Its a wonderful way to spend your evening. Remember, b
In that vein, we ask that you turn your cell phones off because you wont need them, you can look your cell phone for the next hour i guarantee it. It was good to be completely mesmerized by our author, that we are so proud to bring you today. Thank you for supporting book passage. We are an independent bookstore one of the very few remaining independent bookstores. [applause] thank you. We are very proud of that fact. Thanks for coming to our core the madeira location we have a beautiful store in the siri building in San Francisco. If youve never been there, its a beautiful store, go in, by a few books and have dinner in the city. Its a wonderful way to spend your evening. Remember, book passage is so much more than just a bookstore, we bring to you probably a thousand author readings every year, if you can believe that. In addition we also have all kinds of classes, language classes, writing classes, we have book groups, childrens classes and finally, and proud to say we are going gre