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Today we're talking with fellow mod u/Georgy_K_Zhukov about dueling in the 19th century United States.
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As I said in the podcast, I'd be posting a bibliography. You can find a much more extensive one here, but for a briefer one speaking mainly just to the topic of the Podcast, namely dueling in the United States with a focus on political encoutners, here is the limited edition "Greatest Hits" release:
Also, I haven't listened back through the podcast as like most people it isn't like I can stand hearing my own voice, but off hand as far as error corrections, I know I messed up at least one thing, confusing the date of the Cilley-Graves encounter and placing it in 1826, the year of the Randolph-Clay duel which also touched on Congressional privilege. Cilley-Graves was in fact in 1838. Quite possibly a few other mix-ups in there which I blustered through, but that one at least struck me practically the moment after wrapping up, so thought to point it out.
I'll use this as a chance to recommend related high quality podcasts for users whose interest was peaked by the podcast/topic:
both Ben Franklin's World and the Age of Jackson podcasts which are conducted by a history Ph.D. and a grad student respectively and interview authors about their recent work (and, in the case of the Age of Jackson, bring on people to talk about "great books" in the field).
For example, episode 34 is an hour long look at Zhukov's recommended Wyatt-Brown's Southern Honor: Ethics and Behavior in the Old South and the next episode is on a recently published book on a similar topic (American Honor: The Creation of the Nation's Ideals during the Revolutionary Era)
I started listening to these before bedtime and sometimes fall asleep towards the end so maybe I missed this, but was the glove slap a formalized part of the duel procedure, or is that just an element of fiction?
Great job again! 10,000 dead nobles is a wild statistic!
Gotta love history ❤️