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In your book you write there seems to be so much violence in the house and senate chambers in the 1830s, 1840s, and 1850s, shoving, punching, bowie knives. congressman brawling in the benches while colleagues stood on chairs to get a good look. and at at least once a gun was fired on the house floor. historically they have been demonstrated, that violence has been demonstrated at our highest levels of governance. >> context matters. the united states in the 1840s and 1850s was a really violent country. that was rioting and mobbing of various sorts. there was slaughtering of native-americans, t...

Opponent that they are the anry mob, the radicals. >> they are protesting, not an angry mob. the idea that he considers them all part of something that's breaking the rule of law, it's the other side that has that problem. abe lincoln was very worried at one point that there was mob action in the 1830s and 1840s. abolition editors were being killed. people on the other side were yelling at each other. he said the only answer is to restore the rule of law. he called for people to read to their children every night the declaration of independence, the constitution, the rule of law. the rule of l...

So, this was the house of, or, one of the houses of the notorious madame lynch. >> guido: right. exactly. >> anthony: journalist, poet, and author guido rodriguez alcala has written books on paraguay's history. now, who exactly was madame lynch? a murky background would you say? >> guido: there's a lot of talk about that. >> anthony: right. >> guido: somebody say she was a great woman or that she was a very evil one. >> anthony: she came over on the famous trip from france. >> guido: right. >> anthony: succeeding de francia in 1840s lopez senior reversed many of paraguay's isolationist policie...

Fishermen arrived here in 1840. the main families created a community built around fishing, and this town lived off that industry well into the 20th century. it persisted even when i was here, keeping up old catholic fishing traditions like the blessing of fleet. these days however, there are fewer and fewer boats to bless. >> scott: my name's scott roe, i'm a commercial fishermen. sea scallops, fourth generation. i started when i was 5. it was cool back then. there was like 70, 80 boats here, they were five or six feet deep. now it's just down to like 7 or

Politicians. a lot. like since they ever started it. and that's not the one he's really known for, is it? it's funny, though, i feel like i've heard that one before. >> make america great again. >> make america great again. >> make america great again. >> make america great again. straight from the ronald reagan campaign, it was on posters, it was on buttons. you know what? it's not the only borrowed phrase we found. we went all the way back to the 1840 campaign. and william henry harrison, who can forget tippecanoe, and c so -- >> about president calvin coolidge, his slogan of, no cool-usion....