POLS 103 Discussion

To
open Week Four, we will be honored–and I mean that–with a virtual
guest appearance, with an address by Yale History Professor Joanne
Freeman on the fascinating, mostly-forgotten history of violence in the
United States Congress. As you watch the below with Ms. Freeman, you
can and should comment in real time. What does Freeman’s research
suggest about how congressional politics has changed over time? What
lessons or hints might it hold, not just about the past, but about how
to understand and contextualize historically disagreement in Congress
today? How does Freeman see changing communications technology as
influencing political disagreements before the Civil War and today?