Volatile Times: The Political History of the Civil War Part III

Part III: The Reconstruction Amendments

and How They’ve Created Our Political World Today.

Guest: Eric Foner, the DeWitt Clinton Professor Emeritus of History at Columbia University. His book, The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery won the Pulitzer Prize. His latest book is The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution.