A Conversation with Joanne Freeman: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War Artwork

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A Conversation with Joanne Freeman: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War

August 23, 2021 • David M. Rubenstein / Joanne Freeman • Season 1 • Episode 6

Esteemed historian and Yale University professor Joanne B. Freeman illuminates the tensions and conflicts in U.S. Congress in the decades leading up to the Civil War, when legislative sessions were often punctuated by mortal threats and physical altercations. Recorded January 7, 2021