#112: Dr. Joanne Freeman // Hamilton Historian // Part One

The Hamilcast: A Hamilton Podcast

Gillian Pensavalle

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🗓️ 2 April 2018

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Joanne Freeman is the leading expert on Alexander Hamilton, a professor at Yale University, and the best person to hang with on a rainy Friday night. You probably know her at the badass historian from PBS' Hamilton's America in which she called Hammy "an arrogant, irritating asshole." In Part One Joanne talks about living in a post Hamilton world when Hamilton himself has been in her world since she was 14 years old, how a dueling gun actually goes CLICK-BOOM, and what it was like when Lin-Manuel Miranda stopping by her birthday party to pick up one of her books for research.

Hamilton's America on PBS:

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/hamiltonfullfilm/5801/

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm stage and stages Lin Manuel Miranda, and you're listening to The Hamilcast.
0:05.2	Buts and cuts and,
0:06.2	boosy,
0:07.8	cutson. Ha ha ha ha! Hello everybody welcome back to the hamilcast it is be Julie and today I am
0:21.1	joined by oh my goodness Joanne Freeman.
0:24.0	Hi, hi, thank you so much for coming on a Friday rainy Friday night.
0:28.6	I just I appreciate it so much.
0:30.0	What is there better to do?
0:31.0	Right and hang out and drink some cocktails and talk about Hamilton.
0:34.0	Totally.
0:35.0	So you are a professor of history and American studies at Yale University.
0:38.0	You've been studying Alexander Hamilton for more than 40 years.
0:42.0	You are the leading expert you are also the
0:44.6	co-host of the backstory podcast but honestly me and all the listeners we know you as
0:49.2	that badass historian from the Hamiltock on PBS. It's really logical to ask the question, given all of the ways in which he's extreme,
1:00.9	what kind of a guy was Hamilton? I would say to a lot of people a lot of the time
1:06.8	He was an arrogant
1:09.5	Irritating ass
1:11.7	There are so many gifts of you calling him an arrogant asshole. It's amazing.
1:16.0	I yeah that's was not on my bucket list was like I get to have a gift of calling
1:21.9	Hamilton an asshole.
1:23.0	Although I was like, people at the time considered him an asshole,
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