Joanne B. Freeman, who was rated one of the nation's "Top Young Historians" in 2005, will discuss the physical violence in the U.S. Congress between 1830 and the Civil War on Monday, April 30, at SUNY ...

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Introductions: Tobacco-stained rugs and Benjamin Brown French -- The Union incarnate for better and worse : the United States Congress -- The mix of men in Congress : meeting place of North and South ...

This study illuminates the founders, but it also promises to reshape the way historians think about politics, which in their time, contends Freeman (an assistant professor of history at Yale), was ...

2019-09-01T11:59:50-04:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/c09/20190901121757002_hd.jpgJoanne Freeman talked about her books and answered viewer questions. Her books ...

1. Ours is not the first era when American democracy inspired rage and violence. In “The Field of Blood,” Joanne Freeman explores more than 70 violent incidents that took place between the 1830s and ...

If you think the conflict in today’s U.S. Congress is at a historic extreme, Yale historian Joanne Freeman helps set the record straight. In The Field of Blood, Freeman explores the history of graphic ...