It's weird enough to think about one of our founding fathers being killed in a duel.
It's just that much weirder to imagine the sitting Vice-President of the United States pulling the trigger.
But that's what happened when Aaron Burr faced Alexander Hamilton in a duel in 1804.
John Sedgwick, whose ancestor was Speaker of the House at the time, writes of the friendship-turned-sour between the men in War of Two.
Sedgwick joins us to explore the evidence that the feud was about more than personal slights.