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Professors David Blight, Beverly Gage, and Joanne Freeman discuss Professor Freeman’s Week 2 lectures on the Federalists (don’t call them papers) and whether anyone would actually like the real Alexander Hamilton.

Class 5: Framing a Nation: The Constitution

By yalepodcasts | October 1, 2025

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Professor Freeman describes the structure and process of the new Constitution.

Studio Conversation: John Adams’ To-do List and “Common Sense”

By yalepodcasts | September 19, 2025

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Professors David Blight, Beverly Gage, and Joanne Freeman discuss Professor Freeman’s first 3 lectures.

Class 3 – Declaring Independence

By yalepodcasts | September 19, 2025

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Professor Joanne Freeman continues her exploration of the American Experiment with an inside view of the deliberations leading to the Declaration of Independence.

Class 1: The Road to 250

By yalepodcasts | September 17, 2025

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Introduction to the course with all three professors setting the stage, recorded live from Battell Chapel at Yale University.