Herman BelzHerman Belz is a professor of American constitutional history at the University of Maryland. He has written extensively about the history of civil rights in "A New Birth of Freedom: The Republican Party and Freedmen's Rights 1861-1866 "and "Emancipaton and Equal Rights: Politics and Constitutionalism in the Civil War Era. "He is the co-author of "The American Constitution: Its Origins and Development." Read More Read Less