Guest: Joanne B. Freeman is a professor of history and American studies at Yale University. She is a leading authority on early national politics and political culture. Author of the award-winning Affairs of Honor: National Politics in the New Republic and editor of The Essential Hamilton and Alexander Hamilton: Writings, and her latest, The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War.
Photo credit: John L. Magee – December 2005 on Wikimedia