David S. Brown: Hell of a Storm Coming of the Civil War
David S. Brown discusses his new book, "Hell of a Storm: The Battle for Kansas, the End of Compromise, and the Coming of the Civil War." With chapters on Emerson, Stowe, Thoreau, and Fitzhugh, alongside with a cast of presidents, abolitionists, and black emigrationists, Professor Brown shows how political, cultural, and literary history foreshadow the coming of the Civil War. David S. Brown, is a Horace E. Raffensperger professor of history at Elizabethtown College.