Alexander Hamilton

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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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• 10/28/18
  

  What Happened When Aaron Burr, Late in Life, Encountered this Statue of Alexander Hamilton

  by Donald Yacovone

  When memory and history meet, sometimes irony is the result.

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• SOURCE: Politico
  10-27-17
  

  America Has Been Fighting Over Statues Since the Founding

  by Stephen F. Knott

  Two centuries ago, another monument fight captured American politics: Hamilton vs. Jefferson.

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• 7-2-17
  

  The Founding Fathers Have Another Lesson to Teach Us

  by Donald J. Fraser

  We must get along.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  1-9-17
  

  Up From the Family Basement, a Little-Seen Hamilton Trove

  Before Sotheby’s sells a long-held family trove of Alexander Hamilton’s documents, the public is invited to take a look.

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• 7-31-16
  

  Alexander Hamilton, History Superstar

  by Bruce W. Dearstyne

  How can this one man be a hero to both liberals and conservatives? He’s complicated – like America.

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• SOURCE: Process
  6-13-16
  

  Ron Chernow’s Hamilton is suited to the times, but leaves a lot out

  by Andrew M. Schocket

  So does the musical on which it’s based.

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• 5-10-16
  

  There’s a Way Out of Puerto Rico’s Debt Crisis If US Leaders Are Willing to Be as Bold as Alexander Hamilton

  by Robert E. Wright

  Here’s one way the plan could work.

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• SOURCE: Time Magazine
  4-13-16
  

  Concern Grows That Hamilton Euphoria Will Push Woman to Back of the $10 Bill

  Treasury Secretary Jack Lew has been dropping public hints that he's looking to keep Alexander Hamilton in the center portrait on the front of the $10 bill

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• SOURCE: NYT
  2-5-15
  

  New musical in NY about Alexander Hamilton uses rap to tell his story

  The composer was struck by the parallels between Hamilton — an illegitimate immigrant from the West Indies who rose to power largely by the sheer force of his rhetoric — and such hustlers-turned-moguls as Jay Z.

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• Charles Beard was Actually a Hamiltonian

  by Mac McCorkle

  Getting right with "An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution" after one hundred years.