{"id":3662,"date":"2024-07-19T13:34:36","date_gmt":"2024-07-19T18:34:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/?post_type=speaker&#038;p=3662"},"modified":"2024-07-19T13:34:36","modified_gmt":"2024-07-19T18:34:36","slug":"joanne-freeman","status":"publish","type":"speaker","link":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/speaker\/joanne-freeman\/","title":{"rendered":"Joanne Freeman"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Joanne B. Freeman, Professor of History, specializes in the politics and political culture of the revolutionary and early national periods of American History.\u00a0 She earned her Ph.D. at the University of Virginia.\u00a0 Her most recent book,\u00a0<em>Affairs of Honor: National Politics in the New Republic<\/em>\u00a0(Yale University Press), won the Best Book award from the Society of Historians of the Early American Republic, and her edited volume,\u00a0<em>Alexander Hamilton: Writings<\/em>\u00a0(Library of America) was one of the\u00a0<em>Atlantic Monthly\u2019s<\/em>\u00a0\u201cbest books\u201d of 2001.\u00a0 Her current project,\u00a0<em>The Field of Blood: Congressional Violence in Antebellum America<\/em>, explores physical violence in the U.S. Congress between 1830 and the Civil War, and what it suggests about the institution of Congress, the nature of American sectionalism, the challenges of a young nation\u2019s developing democracy, and the longstanding roots of the Civil War.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":3663,"template":"","class_list":{"0":"post-3662","1":"speaker","2":"type-speaker","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"entry"},"acf":{"speaker_title":"Professor of American History and American Studies at Yale University","speaker_last_name":"Freeman","speaker_classification":["Featured Guests"]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker\/3662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/speaker"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker\/3662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3666,"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker\/3662\/revisions\/3666"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}