Table of Contents

• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• 1. Slavery and Secession
• 2. Confiscation and the War Power
• 3. Habeas Corpus and Freedom of Expression
• 4. Civil Rights and the Thirteenth Amendment
• 5. Civil Rights and the Privileges and Immunities of US Citizenship
• 6. The Freemen’ Bureau and Congressional Reconstruction
• 7. Military Reconstruction, Presidential Obstruction, and Impeachment
• 8. Readmission, the Enforcement Acts, and Segregation
• 9. Liberal Republicanism and the End of Reconstruction
• Conclusion: "This Good Right Hand"
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index

About the Author

Paul Rego is professor of politics in the Department of History, Politics, and International Relations at Messiah University.

Reviews

"Rego provides an accessible, compelling, and timely new biography on the man who helped secure the Union and embodied both the successes and missed opportunities of Reconstruction."--H-Net Reviews"Rego charts Trumbull's metamorphosis from one of the primary architects of Radical Reconstruction to one of its staunchest critics in the early 1870s. A skillful portrait of a crucial legislator."--Choice

"Lyman Trumbull was a key political player during America's formative Reconstruction period. He went from being a warm advocate for Reconstruction measures to a sharp critic of Presidential Reconstruction. Paul Rego's book provides needed perspective on this tumultuous period through a thorough, lively treatment of this forgotten framer of the Reconstruction amendments."--Scott Yenor, editor of Reconstruction: Core Documents"Paul Rego has written an important book about an important figure at an important time in American history. Lyman Trumbull and the Second Founding of the United States highlights all the important debates over secession, the Civil War, and Reconstruction that took place while Trumbull was in the Senate as well as the important positions Trumbull took on those matters. Looking at those debates from a congressional view provides an underappreciated perspective on constitutional developments in the 1860s and early 1870s."--Mark Graber, Regents Professor, University of Maryland Carey School of Law"Paul Rego's fascinating historical study explains the intellectual evolution and influence of forgotten framer of the Thirteenth Amendment, Lyman Trumbull. Rego lays out Trumbull's journey from being a moderate opponent of slavery prior to the Civil War to becoming a strong advocate for the Civil Rights Act of 1866, the Thirteenth Amendment, and the Freedmen's Bureau. In doing so, he recovers Trumbull's lost vision of a robust form of freedom resting on a comprehensive vision of citizenship and civil rights that the states would be required to respect and enforce. A must-read for anyone interested in understanding the law and politics behind Congress's debates over Reconstruction!"--Julie Novkov, professor and Collins Fellow, Departments of Political Science and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, University of Albany