Remaking America's Constitution, 1840-1920 Amar, Akhil Reed creator author aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut text bibliography nyu New York Basic Books ©2025 2025 First edition. monographic eng

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viii, 726 pages ; ilustration ; 24 cm. "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. Pre-war -- War's eve -- Civil War -- Post war -- World war. Akhil Reed Amar. Includes bibliographical references and index. n-us--- Constitutional history United States Constitutional amendments United States Equality before the law United States KF 4541 .A877 2025 9781541605190 2025013993 PUCPR 250724 20260702143836.0 in00024286854 eng