Nov. 18: Dr. Joanne B. Freeman to deliver 26th annual Davis R. Parker Memorial History Lecture

Yale University Professor Joanne B. Freeman will present “Dirty Nasty Politics in Early America” for the 26th annual Davis R. Parker Memorial History Lecture at The Haverford School on Wednesday, Nov. 18, at 7:30 p.m. in the School’s Ball Auditorium, Wilson Hall, lower level. The lecture is free and open to the public. A book signing will follow the event; copies of Affairs of Honor: National Politics in the New Republic and Alexander Hamilton: Writings will be available for purchase.

Freeman specializes in the politics and political culture of the revolutionary and early national periods of American history. She earned her Ph.D. at the University of Virginia. Her book, Affairs of Honor: National Politics in the New Republic, won the Best Book award from the Society of Historians of the Early American Republic. Her current project, The Field of Blood: Congressional Violence in Antebellum America, 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’s developing democracy, and the longstanding roots of the Civil War.

A fellow of the Society of American Historians and a Distinguished Lecturer for the Organization of American Historians, Freeman has done extensive work in public history, including co-curating museum exhibitions and acting as a historical consultant for documentary filmmakers as well as for the National Park Service in the reconstruction of the Alexander Hamilton Grange National Memorial.

Freeman teaches graduate reading and research courses in early national American history, and undergraduate seminars on early national politics and political culture, as well as lecture courses on the American Revolution and early national America.

For further information, please call 610-642-3020, ext. 1311 or visit www.haverford.org/parkerlecture. The Haverford School is located at 450 Lancaster Ave., Haverford. Seating is limited to 250 and will be available on a first-come, first-served basis.