Books by Herman Belz

?By meticulous examination of the motives of Lincoln and of the Radical Republicans . . . he has done much to clarify the reasons Reconstruction ultimately took the course it did. Winner of the 1966 A.H.A. Beveridge award and highly recommended.?-Choice

This work examines the tendency of American constitutionalism during the Civil War. It analyzes the political thought of Abraham Lincoln, his exercise of executive power, and the application of the equality principle. Interdisciplinary in approach, the essays combine history and political science.

A New Birth of Freedom: The Republican Party and Freedmen's Rights, 1861-1866, is an account of how laws, policies and constitutional amendments defining and protecting the personal liberty and civil rights of the country's African American population were adopted during the Civil War.

This text considers the concept of constitutionalism as the subject matter of constitutional history and argues that the study of constitutionalism should be interdisciplinary, requiring the insights and methods of history, political science, and jurisprudence.