Joanne B. Freeman, "The Field of Blood"
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- Опубликовано: 4 июл 2024
- Joanne B. Freeman discusses her book, "The Field of Blood", at Politics and Prose on 9/20/18.
As the national debate over slavery grew more impassioned in the 1840s and 1850s, local brush-fires throughout the nation anticipated the Civil War to come. The halls of Congress, too, saw their share of physical violence, and Freeman, a Yale history professor and cohost of the podcast BackStory, draws on a wide range of sources to document scores of incidents ranging from shouting to shoving matches, fistfights, drawn knives, and even death threats among elected representatives. Her revelatory book tracks a seldom-acknowledged history of incivility in American politics, revises views of familiar figures such as John Quincy Adams and Henry Clay, and shows how the era’s reporting of these sensational events led to a new, splashier journalism.
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Joanne B. Freeman, a professor of history and American studies at Yale University, is a leading authority on early national politics and political culture. Author of the award-winning Affairs of Honor: National Politics in the New Republic and editor of The Essential Hamilton and Alexander Hamilton: Writings, she is a cohost of the popular history podcast BackStory.
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i enjoyed Prof. Freemans HIST116 course at Yale. She tells a good story and may get you to laugh more than once as you can tell.
I wish I could have been there. I'm jealous!
Why is there so much laughter in the crowd? Her book is about the breakdown of government decorum which led to a war--producing 600,000+ deaths.
I was there. The atmosphere was jovial and the stories she shared were interesting and some humorous. Most of us in attendance work on Capitol Hill. We not only could read the stories or get more incite into stories we already tell the public, we know exactly where those fights took place. We had our own reserved section. It was like a fan club! No one meant disrespect to those lost in the Civil War. We were enjoying a historian dedicating so much time and efforts to draw parallels between the Congress prior to the war and the Congress we work for today.
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Any time you get a group of people who are excited about the same thing in a room together to talk about the thing they're all excited about, you shouldn't be surprised to find that everyone's excited. This is a room of American history buffs talking about one of the most exciting moments in American history. Plus, Freeman has some pretty excellent comedic timing for an academic.