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Joanne B. Freeman | |
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Born | Joanne B. Freeman April 27, 1962 |
Alma mater | Pomona College University of Virginia |
Occupation(s) | Professor Author Historian |
Employer | Yale University |
Known for | studies on American Revolution and early national America |
Awards | Best Book Award, 2001 Society for Historians of the Early American Republic (SHEAR) William Clyde DeVane Teaching Award, Yale University, 2017 |
Joanne B. Freeman is an American historian and tenured Professor of History and American Studies at Yale University. Having researched Alexander Hamilton both independently and collaboratively with mentors and peers for more than forty years, she is regarded as "a leading expert" on his life and legacy.[1][2][3] Freeman has published two books as well as articles and op-eds in newspapers including The New York Times,[4][5] magazines like The Atlantic and Slate and numerous academic journals referencing this notable Founding Father. In addition to her many public lectures on Hamilton, outside of her regular student curriculum at Yale, her talks on the topics of political partisanship and violence in the pre-Civil War Congress have appeared on CSPAN [6] In 2005 she was rated one of the nation's "Top Young Historians." [7][8]