| International Standard Book Number |
9781541605190
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| International Standard Book Number |
1541605195
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| Dewey Decimal Classification Number |
342.7302/9
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| Personal Name |
Amar, Akhil Reed, author.
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| Title Statement |
Born equal : remaking America's Constitution, 1840-1920 / Akhil Reed Amar.
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| Varying Form of Title |
Remaking America's Constitution, 1840-1920.
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| Edition Statement |
First edition.
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| Imprint |
New York : Basic Books, 2025.
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| Physical Description |
viii, 726 pages : illustrations, color maps ; 25 cm.
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| Bibliography, Etc. Note |
Includes bibliographical references (page 635-706) and index.
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| Formatted Contents Note |
Pre-war. London -- Philadelphia -- Seneca Falls -- Braintree and Capitol Hill -- Capitol Hill and Braintree -- Buffalo -- Texas and California -- New England and Kentucky -- Peoria -- War's eve. Ostend, Springfield, and Freeport -- Cincinnati, New York City, and Chicago -- Charleston -- Civil War. Washington City, Antietam, Gettysburg, and Atlanta -- Ford's Theatre -- Post war. Pennsylvania Avenue -- Grasslands and the Southland -- World war. Wyoming, Ohio, and Tennessee.
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| Summary, Etc. |
"In 1840, millions of Black Americans groaned in the chains of slavery. By 1920, millions of American men and women of every race had won the vote. In Born Equal...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 Bleeding Kansas to Gettysburg, from Ford’s Theater to the White House gates, ultimately transforming the nation and the world." --publisher's website.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Constitutional history United States.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Constitutional amendments United States.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Equality before the law United States.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Suffrage United States History.
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