Stephen E. Maizlish

The United States Senate, A.D. 1850, an engraving by Peter F. Rothermel that depicts Senator Henry Clay speaking in the Old Senate Chamber; Vice President Millard Fillmore presides, as Senator John C. Calhoun (to the right of the Speaker's chair) and Senator Daniel Webster (seated to the left of Clay) look on.
Education

How Calls for Civility Led to the Civil War

Stephen E. Maizlish's new book discusses a time much like our own, when radicals in Congress hurled insults while moderates bemoaned a lack of civility.