ECW Podcast: Congressional Violence (with Paul Quigley)
Discussions of violence in Congress have made headlines again lately, from Markwayne Mullin’s confirmation hearings as secretary of Homeland Security to Heather Cox Richardson’s daily column. Dr. Paul Quigley has a new book about the most famous episode of Congressional violence, The Man Behind the Cane. He joins the Emerging Civil War podcast to talk about the infamous caning of Sen. Charles Sumner by Rep. Preston Brooks.
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