{"id":60387,"date":"2019-11-06T18:51:35","date_gmt":"2019-11-06T23:51:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/?post_type=lecture&#038;p=60387"},"modified":"2024-04-30T10:27:53","modified_gmt":"2024-04-30T14:27:53","slug":"american-duelists","status":"publish","type":"lecture","link":"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/lecture\/american-duelists\/","title":{"rendered":"American Duelists"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"wp-block-umw-hero alignfull umw-custom-block umw-hero umw-hero--dark-text umw-hero--white umw-hero--with-no-media\"><div class=\"umw-hero__inner\"><div class=\"umw-hero__media\"><\/div><div class=\"umw-hero__title\"><div class=\"container\"><div class=\"umw-hero__title__wrapper\"><div class=\"umw-hero__eyebrow\">great lives lecture series<\/div><h1 class=\"umw-hero__title__header\">American Duelists<\/h1><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-umw-hero-ctas alignfull\"><div class=\"umw-hero__links\"><div class=\"container\"><div class=\"umw-hero__links__wrapper\">\n\n\n\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n<div class=\"wpv-view-output\" data-toolset-views-view-editor=\"578ccd154004878c8c490f4d5489603b\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-toolset-views-view-editor wpv-gutenberg-view-wrapper-61885\">\n\n\n<div id=\"wpv-view-layout-61885-CATTRdf25e2efcf170d205b23fc7d843e07b2\" class=\"js-wpv-view-layout js-wpv-layout-responsive js-wpv-view-layout-61885-CATTRdf25e2efcf170d205b23fc7d843e07b2\" data-viewnumber=\"61885-CATTRdf25e2efcf170d205b23fc7d843e07b2\" data-pagination=\"{&quot;id&quot;:&quot;61885&quot;,&quot;query&quot;:&quot;normal&quot;,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;disabled&quot;,&quot;effect&quot;:&quot;fade&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:500,&quot;speed&quot;:5,&quot;pause_on_hover&quot;:&quot;enabled&quot;,&quot;stop_rollover&quot;:&quot;false&quot;,&quot;cache_pages&quot;:&quot;enabled&quot;,&quot;preload_images&quot;:&quot;enabled&quot;,&quot;preload_pages&quot;:&quot;enabled&quot;,&quot;preload_reach&quot;:1,&quot;spinner&quot;:&quot;builtin&quot;,&quot;spinner_image&quot;:&quot;\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/plugins\/toolset-blocks\/embedded\/res\/img\/ajax-loader.gif&quot;,&quot;callback_next&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;manage_history&quot;:&quot;enabled&quot;,&quot;has_controls_in_form&quot;:&quot;disabled&quot;,&quot;infinite_tolerance&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;max_pages&quot;:1,&quot;page&quot;:1,&quot;base_permalink&quot;:&quot;\/greatlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lecture\/60387?wpv_view_count=61885-CATTRdf25e2efcf170d205b23fc7d843e07b2&amp;wpv_paged=WPV_PAGE_NUM&quot;,&quot;loop&quot;:{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;data&quot;:[],&quot;id&quot;:0}}\" data-permalink=\"\/greatlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lecture\/60387?wpv_view_count=61885-CATTRdf25e2efcf170d205b23fc7d843e07b2\">\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n          <h2 class=\"lectureDate\">Lecture Date: February 20, 2020<\/h2>\n\n<h3>The Hirschler Lecture<\/h3>\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Great Lives, American Duelists\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/393748936?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"533\" height=\"300\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<div class=\"topicSummary\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/10\/Field-of-Blood_Feb20-200x300.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium alignright\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" style=\"\" srcset=\"\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/10\/Field-of-Blood_Feb20-200x300.jpg 200w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/10\/Field-of-Blood_Feb20-768x1152.jpg 768w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/10\/Field-of-Blood_Feb20-683x1024.jpg 683w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/10\/Field-of-Blood_Feb20-760x1140.jpg 760w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><p>Professor Freeman\u2019s lecture is based on her acclaimed 2018 work, <cite>Field of Blood<\/cite>, which recovers the long-lost story of physical violence on the floor of the U.S. Congress. Drawing on an extraordinary range of sources, she shows that the Capitol was rife with conflict in the decades before the Civil War. Legislative sessions were often punctuated by mortal threats, canings, flipped desks, and all-out slugfests. When debate broke down, congressmen drew pistols and waved Bowie knives. One representative even killed another in a duel. Many were beaten and bullied in an attempt to intimidate them into compliance, particularly on the issue of slavery.<br \/>\nThese fights didn\u2019t happen in a vacuum. Freeman\u2019s dramatic accounts of brawls and thrashings tell a larger story of how fisticuffs and journalism, and the powerful emotions they elicited, raised tensions between North and South and led toward war. In the process, she brings the antebellum Congress to life, revealing its rough realities\u2015the feel, sense, and sound of it\u2015as well as its nation-shaping import. Funny, tragic, and rivetingly told, <cite>The Field of Blood<\/cite> offers a front-row view of congressional mayhem and sheds new light on the careers of John Quincy Adams, Henry Clay, and other luminaries, as well as introducing a host of lesser-known but no less fascinating men. The result is a fresh understanding of the workings of American democracy and the bonds of Union on the eve of their greatest peril.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2 class=\"lectureSpeaker\" style=\"padding-top: 1em;\">Speaker: Joanne Freeman<\/h2>\n<div class=\"speakerInfo\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/10\/20Feb_Freeman-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail alignleft\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" style=\"\" srcset=\"\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/10\/20Feb_Freeman-150x150.jpg 150w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/10\/20Feb_Freeman-50x50.jpg 50w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/10\/20Feb_Freeman-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>\n<p>Joanne B. Freeman, Professor of History, specializes in the politics and political culture of the revolutionary and early national periods of American History.  She earned her Ph.D. at the University of Virginia.  Her most recent book, <cite>Affairs of Honor: National Politics in the New Republic<\/cite>(Yale University Press), won the Best Book award from the Society of Historians of the Early American Republic, and her edited volume, <cite>Alexander Hamilton: Writings<\/cite>(Library of America) was one of the <cite>Atlantic Monthly\u2019s<\/cite> \u201cbest books\u201d of 2001.  Her current project, <cite>The Field of Blood: Congressional Violence in Antebellum America<\/cite>, explores physical violence in the U.S. Congress between 1830 and the Civil War, and what it suggests about the institution of Congress, the nature of American sectionalism, the challenges of a young nation\u2019s developing democracy, and the longstanding roots of the Civil War.<\/p>\n<p>A fellow of the Society of American Historians, Freeman has won fellowships from, among others, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers, the Dirkson Congressional Research Center, the American Historical Association, and the Library of Congress.  She is a Distinguished Lecturer for the Organization of American Historians, and was rated one of the nation\u2019s \u201cTop Young Historians\u201d in 2005.<\/p>\n<p>Freeman\u2019s articles have appeared in a wide range of academic journals including <cite>William and Mary Quarterly<\/cite>, <cite>Journal of the Early Republic<\/cite>, <cite>Journal of Policy History, <\/cite> and <cite>Yale Law Journal<\/cite>, among others.  She has written op-ed pieces for the <cite>New York Times<\/cite>, and appeared in a host of documentaries on PBS and the History Channel, and in a number of radio programs for NPR and the BBC.  She has done extensive work in the realm of public history, including co-curating museum exhibitions, acting as a historical consultant for documentary filmmakers, and giving frequent public lectures at venues such as the Smithsonian Museum of American History, the National Gallery of Art, and Colonial Williamsburg, among other places. She has also worked extensively with high school history teachers and students in workshops, lectures, and symposia around the nation.  In the last two years, she has worked as a historical consultant for the National Park Service in the reconstruction of the Alexander Hamilton Grange National Memorial.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"umw_cb_additional_links":[[]],"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_advisory_expires_time":"","_advisory_meta_include":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"season":[592],"class_list":{"0":"post-60387","1":"lecture","2":"type-lecture","3":"status-publish","5":"season-592","6":"entry"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>American Duelists - 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