Born equal : remaking America's Constitution, 1840-1920 / Akhil Reed Amar.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Amar, Akhil Reed, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Constitutional history--United States.

Constitutional history.

Constitutional amendments--United States.

Constitutional amendments.

Equality before the law--United States.

Equality before the law.

Constitutional amendments--History.

Suffrage--History.

United States.

Physical Description:

viii, 726 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Basic Books, Hachette Book Group, 2025.

Summary:

"In Born Equal, the prizewinning constitutional historian Akhil Reed Amar recounts the dramatic constitutional debates that unfolded across these eight decades, when four glorious amendments abolished slavery, secured Black and female citizenship, and extended suffrage regardless of race or gender. At the heart of this era was the epic and ever-evolving idea that all Americans are created equal. The promise of birth equality sat at the base of the 1776 Declaration of Independence. But in the nineteenth century, remarkable American women and men--especially Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Abraham Lincoln--elaborated a new vision of what this ideal demanded. Their debates played out from Seneca Falls to the halls of Congress, from Bloody Kansas to Gettysburg, from Ford's Theater to the White House gates, ultimately transforming the nation and the world"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Pre-war

War's eve

Civil War

Post war

World war.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Kennedy fund bookplate.

ISBN:

9781541605190

1541605195

OCLC:

1483813288

Publisher Number:

CIPO000268768