Born Equal: Remaking America’s Constitution, 1840–1920 sunset Release date: August 30

Release date: August 30

Gettysburg beckons visitors from far and wide and treats them royally

Confederates tried to achieve victory on the battlefield while simultaneously promoting their vision of individual liberty for whites and states’ rights

forged in fire and soon to contend with a nation at war with itself

Born Equal: Remaking America’s Constitution, 1840–1920 sunset Release date: August 30by Akhil Reed Amar From one of our most prodigious constitutional scholars (Jonathan Eig), the definitive history of how the ideal of birth equality reshaped the American Constitution, from antebellum debates over slavery and secession, to the Civil War and emancipation, to womens suffrage 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,