Back Who Tells Your Story: Joanne B. Freeman on Hamilton and History

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JULY 28, 2020 — As Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton streams on Disney+, Joanne B. Freeman, Professor of History and American Studies at Yale University and editor of the Library of America edition of Hamilton’s writing (which helped to inspire Miranda), discusses the musical and what it tells us about how history is made and remade.

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