Reddit mentions of Affairs of Honor: National Politics in the New Republic

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:

• Ayers, Edward L. & John Mayfield & Todd Hagstette, eds. The Field of Honor: Essays on Southern Character and American Identity. University of South Carolina Press, 2017: Particularly several chapters in “Part II: Honor, Violence, and the Law”, and “Part III: Defining the Man - Honor and Character”.
  
• Bruce, Jr., Dickson D. Violence and Culture in the Antebellum South. University of Texas Press, 1979
  
• Fleming, Thomas J. "Duel: Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr and the Future of America": Very lively book and fun to read even if a bit overly "Popish", it focuses specifically on the relationship between Burr and Hamilton in 1803-1804 as they march towards their "interview". Would certainly recommend to anyone looking for a book-length treatment of the duel.
  
• Freeman, Joanne B. Affairs of Honor: National Politics in the New Republic. Yale University Press, 2002: Concerned with a broader look at American politics in the early United States, Freeman devotes part of the book specifically to the Duel and its place within the world of politics at the time. The key chapter on this front can also be found in an earlier version, see below.
  
• Greenberg, Kenneth S. Honor & Slavery: Lies, Duels, Noses, Masks, Dressing as a Woman, Gifts, Strangers, Humanitarianism, Death, Slave Rebellions, the Proslavery Argument, Baseball, Hunting, and Gambling in the Old South. Princeton University Press, 1996: The book is as excellent as its name!
  
• Greene, Evarts B. 1927. “The Code of Honor in Colonial and Revolutionary Times with Special Reference to New England.” Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts 26: 367–89: Old but solid, Greene's article remains heavily cited as one of the "go-to" pieces with regards to the origins of dueling in the United States.
  
• Hopton, Richard. Pistols at Dawn: A History of Duelling: If you are looking for a decently written and researched pop history introduction, this is the book for you! Providing a general overview of the history of the duel in Europe, while it has its small errors and simplifications, all in all, it provides a solid survey for someone who doesn't want to jump into more academic works yet.
  
• Moore, James T. 1975. “The Death of the Duel: The Code Duello in Readjuster Virginia, 1879-1883.” The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 83 (3): 259–78.
  
• Olson, Christopher J. Political Culture and Secession in Mississippi: Masculinity, Honor, and the Antiparty Tradition, 1830-1860. Oxford University Press, 2002 Schneller, Mark G. Invisible Sovereign: Imagining Public Opinion from the Revolution to Reconstruction. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015.
  
• Rorabaugh, W J. 1995. “The Political Duel in the Early Republic: Burr v. Hamilton.” Journal of the Early Republic 15 (1): 1–23: A good, concise evaluation of the Burr-Hamilton Duel in political context.
  
• Stevens, William Oliver Pistols at Ten Paces: The Story of the Code of Honor in America. Houghton Mifflin, 1940: While a bit dated, it is an unfortunate fact that solid, book length treatments of dueling in the United States are few and far between. While falling into the common fault of over emphasizing anecdote common to older books on the duel, it nevertheless is a good read.
  
• Steward, Dick. Duels and the Roots of Violence in Missouri. University of Missouri Press, 2000
  
• Stowe, Steven M. Intimacy and Power in the Old South: Ritual in the Lives of the Planters. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990.
  
• Wells, C.A. Harwell. 2001. “The End of the Affair? Anti-Dueling Laws and Social Norms in Antebellum America.” Vanderbilt Law Review 54 (4): Focused most specifically on dueling, legally, and its decline in the United States.
  
• Williams, Jack K. Dueling in the Old South: Vignettes of Social History. Texas A&M University Press, 1980: A nice, short book that looks at the duel in the American South.
  
• Wyatt-Brown, Bertram. Southern Honor: Ethics and Behavior in the Old South. Oxford University Press, 1983: An (the most?) important work on the study of antebellum culture in the American South, looking at the duel, and the wider society in which it belonged. See also "Honor and Violence in the Old South which is an abridged version focused more on the role of violence specifically in the life of the Southern gentleman.
  
  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.

Definitely. Check out this lecture by historian Joanna Freeman on her famous book "affairs of honor" which gives a fascinating perspective into the culture of honor dueling in America.