Alexander Hamilton 
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SOURCE: Made By History at The Washington Post
11/11/2020
A Diverse Cabinet will Make Joe Biden a Better President and Unify the Country
by Lindsay M. Chervinsky
"Over the past 230 years, presidents have followed Washington’s lead, making increased diversity and representation of religions, backgrounds, genders and races a central part of the cabinet story."
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SOURCE: Smithsonian
11/10/2020
New Research Suggests Alexander Hamilton Was a Slave Owner
A recent paper by a researcher at th Schuyler Mansion looks into Alexander Hamilton's papers to argue that is reputation as an abolitionist is undeserved; he had personal dealings in purchasing enslaved laborers for his household.
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SOURCE: New York Times
11/9/2020
Alexander Hamilton, Enslaver? New Research Says Yes
A paper by a researcher at the Schuyler Mansion finds overlooked evidence in letters and Hamilton’s own account books indicating that he bought, sold and personally owned slaves.
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SOURCE: Made by History at The Washington Post
10/27/2020
The Historical Case for George W. Bush Endorsing Joe Biden
by Louis P. Masur
Hamilton demonstrated in 1800 something that matters today: being retired from politics isn’t the same as being retired from citizenship.
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SOURCE: Daily Gazette (Schenectady, NY)
10/24/2020
Schuyler Mansion Works to Bring Clarity to Alexander Hamilton’s Role as Enslaver
Jessie Serfilippi of the Schuyler Mansion State Historic Site examines Alexander Hamilton's relationship to slavery and challenges his image as a proto-abolitionist.
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SOURCE: Contingent
9/30/2020
The Electoral Punt
by Jonathan Wilson
Many people imagine they understand the Framers' intent in creating the Electoral College. They impute more clarity of purpose than they should to a group who essentially made a slapdash compromise in order to be finished with the ordeal of drafting the Constitution.
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8/23/2020
"Hamilton" as a Meditation on History and Memory
by Bennett Parten
In a moment in which Confederate monuments are finally coming down and we are re-thinking how we tell our history, Hamilton is a sign of hope. It’s a sign that while history is something we can never resign from, we can always enter the narrative and, like Eliza, construct a history of our own.
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8/16/2020
The Paradox of Executive Underreach
by Michael A. Genovese
While the Constitution says more about limiting the overreach of the executive branch, functioning government must beware of an underreaching executive that abdicates responsibility.
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SOURCE: Made By History at The Washington Post
8/6/2020
Hamilton And The Unsung Labors Of Wives
by Jennifer Forestal and Menaka Philips
Women, and particularly wives like Eliza Hamilton, have been essential to our political and intellectual histories; it’s long past time we tell their stories.
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SOURCE: NPR
7/11/2020
Hamilton, In Fiction And History, Is Key To Understanding The Electoral College
This week, the U.S. Supreme Court settled an important question about the function of the Electoral College that elects the U.S. president. But it did not address the pivotal question about the Electoral College.
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SOURCE: The New York Times
7/6/2020
‘Hamilton’ and the Historical Record: Frequently Asked Questions
The Disney+ filmed version has fans wondering what’s accurate. Historians are fans, too, and they have answers, along with caveats.
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SOURCE: Time
2/26/20
Land Deed for Pioneering School Sheds Light on an Early American Anti-Slavery Effort
Sotheby’s announced Wednesday that it is auctioning off a 1794 land deed for the first location of the African Free School in lower Manhattan, one of the first educational institutions founded to prepare free people of color and the children of enslaved people for life after slavery.
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SOURCE: Creators.com
1/29/20
History Has Its Eyes on You, Senate, and if You Don't Know, Now You Know
by Jamie Stiehm
Aaron Burr famously foresaw it all, in the room where it happens one winter day in 2020: the Senate chamber.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
12/17/19
Alexander Hamilton has been cast in a starring role for impeachment's closing arguments
Hamilton’s name appears 35 times in a 658-page report formally recommending impeachment that was released earlier Monday by the House Judiciary Committee.
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SOURCE: Smithsonian Magazine
August 27, 2019
155 Years After His Death, Abolitionist John Pierre Burr’s Epitaph Updated to Include His Father, Aaron Burr
Two of the most famous figures in American history share more than space in a history textbook.
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SOURCE: Wall Street Journal
6/23/2019
Enough With Hamilton, Say Fans of Other Founding Fathers
Success of Broadway show steals limelight from Jefferson, Franklin and others; ‘not a lot of demand for James Madison’
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SOURCE: Architectural Digest
6/14/2019
How Hamilton's Production Designer Brought the Founding Father's World to Life in the New Exhibition
There's a wealth of information left for fans of the award-winning musical to explore.
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SOURCE: NY Times
5/18/19
A Stolen Letter Written by Alexander Hamilton in 1780 Resurfaces
The three-paragraph letter — now valued between $25,000 and $35,000, according to the Virginia auction house — warned Lafayette, the French general who commanded troops in several Revolutionary War battles, of pending danger from the British.
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
2/19/19
A Centuries-Old Idea Could Revolutionize Climate Policy
The Green New Deal’s mastermind is a precocious New Yorker with big ambitions. Sound familiar?
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SOURCE: Town and Country
2/8/19
Before Jeff Bezos, Alexander Hamilton Outsmarted His Blackmailers with the Reynolds Pamphlet
In 1797, he published scandalous details about his own affair.
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