Indepth program. With author and historian, joanne freeman. Books include affairs of honor,o the essential hamilton, and most recently, the field of blood. Violence in congress and the road to civil war. Joanne freeman you are going to hate this opening question. Spak zero. Trace the art of our nations history from 1783, 21861, the political history. Wow. Okay, the speech. Thats a little i daunting. Tracy r. Im going to do historian thing and speak generally. I guess i would say if you are looking in american politics, from the beginning like through we could even go after the war, talking about paradoxes, and conflict. I tend to focus on is really more the early part of the ark. It is the improvisational nature of that. It is because the nation was founded in a world of monarchy. And you know the United States of republic what that means was it so clear at the moment and people knew they were trying to do something that wasntth that. So were not going to create a monarchy the presiden
West after the end of the civil war. Congressional republicans had an environmental view of citizenship, desiring to turn both freed africanamericans and farmers. Nto small each group, many white americans believed, would be loyal to the government until the soil and till the soil based on a northern agricultural model. Adam dean is an assistant professor of history at lynchburg college, specializing in slavery, the american civil war, and reconstruction. He received a ba from the university of california los angeles, ma and phd in 19 century history from the university of virginia under the direction of gary gallagher. Herellagher, who will be to speak. Adams scholarship focuses on using insights from environmental and social history to answer longstanding questions about the long civil war and its era. Agrarianbook, republic, farming, antislavery politics, and nature parks in the civil war era, was published by the university of North Carolina press in february 2015. Hes also publish