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Back to EpisodesA Conversation with Joanne Freeman: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War
Season 1
Episode 6
Published 5 years ago
Description
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