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Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
In The Field of Blood, Joanne B. Freeman recovers the long-lost story of physical violence on the floor of the U.S. Congress. Drawing on an extraordinary range of sources, she shows that the Capitol was rife with conflict in the decades before the Civil War. Legislative sessions were often punctuated by mortal threats, canings, flipped desks, and all-out slugfests. When debate broke down, congressmen drew pistols and waved Bowie knives. One representative...
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2014.
Language
English
Description
For the first 128 years of our country's history, not a single woman served in the Senate or House of Representatives. All of that changed, however, in November 1916, when Jeannette Rankin of Montana became the first woman elected to Congress--even before the Nineteenth Amendment gave women across the U.S. the right to vote. Beginning with the women's suffrage movement and going all the way through the results of the 2012 election, Ilene Cooper deftly...
Publisher
Distributed by Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004], ©1996
Language
English
Description
Academy Award winner. These films provide rare footage and historical recounts of some of the most prized American institutions. The series has earned universal critical acclaim as well as over 100 awards.
5) The lost history of the Capitol: the hidden and tumultuous saga of Congress and the Capitol building
Author
Publisher
Lyons Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"An account of the many bizarre, tragic, and violent episodes that have occurred in and around the Capitol Building, from the founding of the federal capital city in 1790 up to contemporary times"--
Author
Publisher
Dorling Kindersley Limited, parte de Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
"Explora el funcionamiento del gobierno de Estados Unidos y cómo la historia del país ha dado forma a la manera como somos governados."--
"Explore how the government of the United States works and how the country's history has shaped the way we are governed."--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"A timely account of a raging debate: The history of the ongoing struggle between the presidents and Congress over who has the power to declare and wage war. The Constitution states that it is Congress that declares war, but it is the presidents who have more often taken us to war and decided how to wage it. In Waging War, United States Circuit Judge for the United States Court of Appeals David Barron opens with an account of George Washington and...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"The story of how Congress helped win the Civil War--a new perspective that puts the House and Senate, rather than Lincoln, at the center of the conflict."--
This brilliantly argued new perspective on the Civil War overturns the popular conception that Abraham Lincoln single-handedly led the Union to victory and gives us a vivid account of the essential role Congress played in winning the war Building a riveting narrative around four influential...
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