Joanne Freeman

TV's most-watched history series brings to life the compelling stories from our past that inform our understanding of the world today.

The story of how a fatherless young soldier full of personal ambition becomes a leader of men willing to sacrifice all for the common cause. How a once-loyal British subject rises to battle an empire in a liberty-or-death campaign to forge a new nation. And then how, at the zenith of his power, the victorious general voluntarily steps down, becoming what King George III would call “the greatest man in the world.”

Reviewing the pursuit of democracy within the U.S. on the anniversary of the 2021 Capitol riot.