Here are the collected posts for our Balkinization symposium on Kurt Lash's new two volume collection, The Reconstruction Amendments: The Essential Documents (University of Chicago Press, 2021)(2 vols.).
1. Jack Balkin, Introduction to the Symposium
2. Gerard N. Magliocca, What is Reconstruction?
3. Jack Balkin, Kurt Lash and the Canons of Constitutional Law
4. Sandy Levinson, Kurt Lash on Reconstruction (1): Defining the topic, setting the canon
5. Sandy Levinson, Kurt Lash on Reconstruction (2): Is the Fifteenth Amendment an Embarrassment?
6. Bradley Rebeiro, Not Too Much, Not Too Little: Frederick Douglass in Kurt Lash’s Reconstruction Volumes
7. Richard Primus, What Reconstruction Demonstrates about Constitutional Change
8. Darrell A.H. Miller, The Reconstruction Amendments’ Canonical Texts
9. Lea VanderVelde, Embracing the Entirety; Close and Distant Reading of The Congressional Globe
10. Lee J. Strang, The Continuing Value of Documentary Collections in Originalist Theory
11. Christopher Green, An Unparalleled Reconstruction Political Time Machine
12. Jennifer L. Mascott, Originalism, Methodology, and the Reconstruction Amendments
13. Kurt Lash, A Place to Begin: My Response to the Symposium Essays