It’s often said that we’re living in historic times. Historic threats to democracy and historic turning points for our nation. Yale professor Joanne Freeman joins David Rothkopf to take a look back and the early days of the United States to titanic figures like Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton to explore just how novel our current moment is and how we can draw inspiration from the past to fight for the future. 

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