Captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2008 thats such a powerful turn in the book when you describe how the decision of northerners to challenge southerners to duels actually decreased the violence and you quote from that remarkably moving letter which you said moved you to tears when representatives wade, chandler and cameron all pledged to challenge future duellers to fight. You write when it became known that some northern senators were ready to fight, for sufficient cause, the tone softened and the abuse went on. We have this really wonderful new exhibit on the civil war and reconstruction, Thaddeus Stevens cane, when i show the cane and tell the story i quote your book how some would run for congress during that period on the grounds that my left hook is better than the other guy. Im going to beat him up because im tougher and you bring that to life. Incredibly powerfully. Norm ornstein, its often said or been said by norbert mccarthy, a scholar at princeton, we are mo
Books, hisng forthcoming book is southern journey. Welcome, it is an honor to have you. Edward my pleasure, thank you. Jeffrey Joanne Freeman is a class of 1954 professor of American History and american studies at yale university, where she specializes in the politics and political culture of the revolutionary and Early National periods. She is a cohost with edward ayres of a Popular History podcast backstory. It is great to unite these copodcasters together. And she is the author of many books as well, including the pathbreaking. As well as field of blood. Joanne, it is such an honor to have you with us. Joanne thanks for having me. Jeffrey Norman Ornstein studies politics, elections, and the u. S. Congress. His books include one nation after trump, a guide for the perplexed, the disillusioned, the desperate, and not yet departed. And there are other titles, the next one, we did at the Constitution Center. And it depressed us even before we begin the program. It is even worse than it
Much of this moment and forces us to confront challenges that our society has had trouble with in recent years, this is a time that makes us wonder how stronger institution will prove to be, how we will rise to a challenge i and i think i cant help but see it as a time of a crisis but because it is a time of testing at the time to think about what americas strengths are, what were good at as a country how we can build on that to address the innermost problems. How did we get here . Thats an awfully complicated question. Our country has always tried to strike a balance between the dignity and equality in the individual one hand and some form of strength of community on the other, every free Society Faces the tension in our society has in the past halfcentury emphasize individual, emphasize liberty and emphasize freedom and diversity and that has brought enormous advantages and benefits but there is another side to that coin and the other side can look Like Division and fragmentation and
President emeritus at the university of richmond. He is the author of many books on the civil war and reconstruction. I will highlight one, a forthcoming book, southern journey. Welcome, it is an honor to have you. Edward my pleasure, thank you. Jeffrey Joanne Freeman is a professor of American History and american studies at yale university, where she specializes in the politics and political culture of the revolutionary and Early National period. She is a cohost with edward ayres of a Popular History podcast backstory. It is great to unite these copodcasters together. She is the author of many books as well, including the pathbreaking. As well as field of blood. Joanne, it is such an honor to have you with us. Joanne thanks for having me. Jeffrey Norman Ornstein studies u. S. Congress. Include one nation after trump, a guide for the perplexed, desperate, and not yet departed. And there are other titles, the next one, we did at the Constitution Center. It depressed us even before we b
Answer questions with the house intel committee, he said the white house instructed him not to talk about his work there or even during the transition, bannon did admit that he had conversations about the now Infamous Trump tower meetings, but otherwise, he wasnt talking about. The white house defending its coordination with bannon. Theres Steve Bannons attorney is so my questions are, who was he relaying the questions to, is that something the white house specifically asked his attorney to do . And if so, why did the white house think that was a necessary step in handling bannons testimony . That is the procedure that is typically followed. They usually have a white house attorney inside the room, this time it was something related by phone and again was following standard procedure. Theres nothing automatically wrong with that either, so bannon didnt talk, because as the spokesman explains, there was an arrangement to do this. But bannon when it gets down to controversies doesnt have