‘Why 1850 Doesn’t Feel So Very Far Away’

“Congress has been here before, and it wasn’t pretty,” wrote Joanne B. Freeman, PhD, in the NYT. She is a professor of history and American studies at Yale, and author of “The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War.” Dr. Freeman has spent her career as a historian analyzing political violence in America, in duels, in Congress and…