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Carol Berkin: The Crises of the 1790s and the Birth of American Nationalism

May 18, 2017

Carol Berkin, professor of history at City University of New York, discusses her new book, A Sovereign People, and explores how George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, and John Adams navigated the nation through four major crises and caused the first stirrings of American nationalism. 

Tom Donnelly, senior fellow in constitutional studies at the National Constitution Center, moderates.

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