The Fourteenth Amendment
Program Information
Series: BackStory with the American History GuysProgram: Eric Foner
Duration: 00:11:02
Year Produced: 2009
Description:
Historian Eric Foner discusses the origins and changing meanings of the Fourteenth Amendment. He explains how a law intended to protect individual rights in the wake of the Civil War ended up emboldening corporate power in the Gilded Age and beyond.
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