TY  - BOOK
AU  - Finkelman,Paul
AU  - Kennon,Donald R.
ED  - Project Muse.
TI  - Ending the Civil War and Consequences for Congress / 
T2  - Perspectives on the history of Congress, 1801-1877
SN  - 9780821446461
PY  - 2019///]
CY  - Athens, Ohio
PB  - Published for the United States Capitol Historical Society by Ohio University Press
KW  - United States
KW  - Congress
KW  - fast
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Postwar reconstruction
KW  - Law and legislation
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - Legislation
KW  - Civil rights
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - Civil War Period (1850-1877)
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - LAW
KW  - Legal History
KW  - History of the Americas
KW  - bicssc
KW  - États-Unis
KW  - Politique et gouvernement
KW  - 1865-1877
KW  - Civil War, 1861-1865
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - local
N1  - Open Access
N2  - "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"--
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/67983/
ER  -