Alexander Hamilton Q & A with Joanne B. Freeman
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- Опубликовано: 8 июл 2024
- Historian Joanne B. Freeman-a leading authority on Alexander Hamilton and editor of the Library of America volume "Alexander Hamilton: Writings"-answers questions about Hamilton’s life and work, as well as the Broadway musical he inspired.
Professor of History and American Studies at Yale University, Freeman specializes in the politics and political culture of the revolutionary and early national periods of American history. She serves on the Board of Directors of Library of America.
For more information, visit www.loa.org.
Her enthusiasm is contagious !!
Talk about finding your calling/purpose! Her charisma and enthusiasm is contagious.
She has a wonderful teaching style! I've been watching her lectures about the revolution on yalecourses
Oh my god, I love her so much, I watched the entire class. If you see this, I can't express how incredibly easy it is to listen to you. Thank you for your passion and bravery to be heard loud and clear about important issues that are not black and white.
Loved this, Hamilton was complicated, human, but more than anything I get out of this, and this is not the first podcast like review on Hamilton, is that he was a patriot for getting our country up and running. He believed in the cause 110%. Our founding fathers were people, with issues, emotions and dreams. Thank goodness they never gave up on our great nation:) I like the fact that the professor didn't sugar coat his personality, quirks and all.
I stumbled across her lectures on iTunes and now I'm hooked! Can't wait to read her next work. Thanks so much for making this available.
Joanne Freeman is a national treasure. I think I’ve watched every one of her talks on RUclips and really enjoy the podcast she’s co-hosting with Heather Cox Richardson.
Thank you so much for this info.She is ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS ! wry enjoyable and comprehensive to listen and watch ! God Bless !
This video is a treasure. Thanks for uploading.
Love J.B. Feeman, see her lecture on The Revolution. I could listen to her for hours.
i love this lady shes a great teacher just love her
American presidential historians sized him up in simple terms: "He was a brilliant man, of ruthless ambition, in league with the bank of England."
Me before watching this: it's an hour long, i probably won't finish watching it.
Me @12 am: giggling the whole time, while watching it without skipping a single second
My hamilton maniac is getting worse...
Thank you Professor Freeman. As others have stated, your enthusiasm is contagious and your knowledge of the subject matter is impressive.
I always been a fan of history and live theater so Hamilton was gold to me
Thank you L of A & Joanna, this was a treat.
*Joanne
I really enjoyed her revolution Yale lectures and her humour and passion
Joanne is enjoyable to listen to. I wouldn't fall asleep in her class. Hamilton is a distant cousin of mine, so is Burr, Washington, Jefferson and Adams.
Just a Citizen here in Florida. Saw some of your Yale lectures. Appreciated especially the colonial history ones.
Wonderful hour well spent. Thank you!!
She is really a wonderful teacher. Reminds me of others like her in my youth.
As much as I like Hamilton I think the line "He thought he was being clever, he wasn't being clever" is a perfect synopsis of his life
Pablo Morrissey-Fernandez I
would really like to take one or more of her classes.
This was amazing
Completely fascinating & very entertaining...well done! So much energy & enthusiasm, & clearly loving her topic; I would love to have a couple beers with this woman! :)
Not only is this Professor well versed in her subject , and I have a warm regard for her ability to speak to it, and I believe her to be a little in love with Hamilton. Thank you.
Apparently I’m a descendent of Hamilton. I’m British with Scottish\irish roots.
Historian:
BURR vs HAMILTON: (The Duel). Normally, in duels, you walk off ten steps, (which they did), present as low an outline as possible to your opponent, wait for a last-minute apology/concession, then fire at will (flag drop). This evidently went down. The two main eye-witness accounts vary because they were offered later by the two "Seconds" of Burr and Hamilton. It's generally acknowledged that Hamilton fired first - or at least initiated the simultaneous shots. Hamilton's shot missed Burr, hitting a tree. Hamiltonians would have us believe that it was a "deliberate" miss-shot fired into the air. If this were true, then why did Hamilton put his glasses on before firing his pistol? Burr's shot hit Hamilton's wrist first then ricocheted into his right-side abdomen piercing his liver. Hamilton's wrist could not have been raised in the air with this result. Dueling was against the law at this time, punishable by death in New York, so the two duelists carried out their archaic settlement on the shores of New Jersey. Interestingly, during this illegal act, Hamilton's Second was District Court "Judge" Nathaniel Pendleton. Hamilton provided the pistols, the same ones where his son lost his own life in a duel three years earlier. Hamilton was not "murdered." He was just a bad shot - even with his glasses on.
Wished I had a history teacher like Joanne.
He is his own enthusiast first., giving himself an inbuilt confidence. I blame the Mother, if you ask me. Answer is both totally whimsical and merited. Hear it for the Mothers ! !
A teacher who draws you in.
In your introduction you failed to mention Ron Chernow's 800 page book which that play was based on. As a student who studied history I was amazed by Chernow's book. I know today many people no longer read. I know this because I've asked a large group of people. They preferred to go and see the play. There is no comparison between the 800 page book and the play. Anyway that's my take.
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After Burr shot and killed Hamilton he went home and had his breakfast. I forgot who visited him and he didn't know that Burr just killed Hamilton. Burr was quietly eating his breakfast. So many more facts in the book. 🙋♂️
She’s fantastic; great personality and very knowledgeable. Secretary Hamilton was the most brilliant man during those early days of our new Government ... as fas as I’m concerned he was basically our first President! But the things Jefferson; Madison and Monroe did to this man in the 90’s was just disgusting!! The biggest tragedy is he dying so young (49) ... it’s painstaking to think how much more he would have contributed to our Government ... especially over the next 20 years (following his death) when the Jeffersonians were in the White House.
I've always thought the Hamilton was a good guy I I when I was growing up he was 1 of my heroes and so that just tells you how much I bought a Hamilton
He would have been another Napoleon Bonaparte, and strange combination of Oliver Cromwell.
Just imagine seeing on a poster 3rd President Aaron Burr
Janu
Very nice interesting Q&A session. Hamilton was a complicated, flawed, and ambitious man.
From one REYNOLDS to the STORY of another, must run in the family. (M. REYNOLDS)
Love her! Love seeing another spunky female historian :-)
I realize some of these historians don't ever state that he was born on the island of Nevis. It's like they feel the need to give this aura of mystery around his early years. God forbid a founding father was born and educated in another country.
44:35 unholy noises
Alexander had a little brother, whatever happened to him?
he had a big brother.
Stephen Fry on Catholicism. Help ?
it must be nice, it must be nice....to have Washington ON your side....
My question is this......How does a bastard, orphan, son of a whore and a Scotsman, dropped in the middle of a forgotten spot in the Caribbean, by providence, impoverished in squalor, grow up to be a hero and a scholar?
His mother was not a whore. Please review the facts. You're totally wrong
Bill Hartenstine they were quoting the musical
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Well, no question that she has command of her subject. But the constant gesticulating and fiddling with her hair is very distracting.
Hamilton was a traitor!
she needs to stop tossing her hair, it's distracting
May I ask how much her hair tossing distracts her from her presentation? Could it be that you are perhaps too easily distracted?
Actually, it's a valid point. I think she's a great historian and her obvious strength is making history fun. However, I find her easier to listen to than to watch. So may I ask you, could your criticism of the previous commenter be a bit hasty?
Why pick the hair thing in the first place? She's animated, she's talking with her hands a lot, making facial gestures, changing posture, & etc. Of all of these I'd be inclined to say that the hair tossing, or brushing back with her hands or off her shoulders seems more of an automatic unconscious non communicative movement, but that is HER & I accept that as part of "the show". That WAY more than "the hair" is going on seems obvious, no? Is it "hasty" to point that out? When her hair is up - rare - the adjusting doesn't happen.
My point was that accusing the first commenter of being easily distracted was hasty. Just because you disagree doesn't mean someone else is wrong. Look, it doesn't matter to me if it doesn't distract you, that's great. All I'm saying is obviously some people, including me, do find it distracting. I think she's a wonderful historian, as I said. But because of quick and frequent movements, I find it easier to listen to her lectures rather than to watch them. Doesn't make my opinion any more important than yours, we just have different learning styles. Have a great rest of the weekend! :)
I asked questions, which are different from "accusations" or for that matter indictments.
Questions are supposed to elicit learning and are part of the Socratic method,no? Check out Prof Freeman's "The American Revolution" course on Yale Open Courses. A semester's course on this subject for free. Learning as "style", hmmm. I suppose, but interest makes it a guided and perhaps directed activity. Enjoy your time - please!
Jewish for sure. He is pro-bank, pro-federalism, anti-agrarian, and believed in manumission. No Hebrews like slavery. Just debt slavery. 😊
I have a crush on her, but she is in love with him...