Week One: The American Revolution, Professor Joanne Freeman, Yale University

Photo by Beowulf Sheehan

If you ever thought you might want to go to Yale, this is your chance.

Professor Joanne Freeman, Yale’s Class of 1954 Professor of American History and American Studies, is a particular favorite of ours. She is a leading expert on politics and political violence in the early republic.  We’ve previously featured Professor Freeman in Inspired Thoughts and a reading of the Declaration of Independence that she did with some of her colleagues and students has become a July 4th tradition for the American Democracy Initiative. 

Professor Freeman’s course on the American Revolution is one of the best-known and most-popular courses at Yale. Lecture One including, “Freeman’s Top Five Tips for Studying the Revolution” is available at the link below as is a full course description, readings list, and information on how to access the rest of her course (there are 25 lectures in all). 

Attribution: Joanne Freeman, The American Revolution, (Yale University: Open Yale Courses), http://oyc.yale.edu (Accessed January 8, 2020). License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/ Terms of Use for this Open Yale Course are available at: http://oyc.yale.edu/terms.

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