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Perspectives on the History of Congress, 1801–1877
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The social changes and human and economic costs of the Civil War led to profound legal and constitutional developments after it ended, not least of which were the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments and the many laws devised to protect the civil rights of newly freed African Americans. These amendments and laws worked for a while, but they were ineffective or ineffectively enforced for more than a century.
In Ending the Civil War and the Consequences for Congress, contributors explore how the end of the war both continued the trauma of the conflict and enhanced the potential for the new birth of freedom that Lincoln promised in the Gettysburg Address. Collectively, they bring their multidisciplinary expertise to bear on the legal, economic, social, and political aspects of the aftermath of the war and Reconstruction era. The book concludes with the reminder of how the meaning of the war has changed over time. The Civil War is no longer the “felt” history it once was, Clay Risen reminds us, and despite the work of many fine scholars it remains contested.
Contributors: Jenny Bourne, Carole Emberton, Paul Finkelman, Lorien Foote, William E. Nelson, Clay Risen, Anne Sarah Rubin, and Peter Wallenstein
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Ending the Civil War and Consequences for Congress © 2019 by Ohio University Press is licensed under Creative Commons License CC BY-NC-ND. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Language
eng
ISBN
9780821446461
Publication Date
4-24-2019
Publisher
Ohio University Press
City
Athens
Keywords
Ending the Civil War and the Consequences for Congress, Civil War, Reconstruction, Fourteenth Amendment, Fifteenth Amendment, civil rights, Congress, constitutional history, legal history, African American history, emancipation, postwar America, political change, social change, economic impact, federal power, Lincoln, Gettysburg Address, historical memory, U.S. history
Disciplines
Legal History | Social History | United States History
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
Recommended Citation
Finkelman, Paul and Kennon, Donald R., "Ending the Civil War and Consequences for Congress" (2019). Ohio University Press Open Access Books. 104.
https://ohioopen.library.ohio.edu/oupress/104