Brown Bag: Sarah Swedberg, "The Folly and Madness of War"

In this talk, Dr. Sarah Swedberg will discuss her current research at the Clements Library as recipient of the Howard H. Peckham Fellowship on Revolutionary America. Her project, "The Folly and Madness of War, 1775-1783" focuses on the ways the United States founding generation worried about irrationality as they worked to build a rational state.