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The Field of Blood

Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War
  • Joanne B. Freeman
2018
Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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  • A man carries a Confederate battle flag through the halls of the U.S. Capitol building on Jan. 6, 2021.
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    A Brief History of Violence in the Capitol: The Foreshadowing of Disunion

    The radicalization of a congressional clerk in the 1800s and the introduction of the telegraph set a young country on a new trajectory.
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    Raising Cane

    The violence on Capitol Hill that foreshadowed a bloody war.
    by Joanne B. Freeman via Lapham’s Quarterly on September 15, 2018
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