Excerpts from Hamilton's contributions to Federalist Papers 20-36. The Federalist Papers are among Hamilton's most important writings, so I'm going to take my time going through them. For the excerpts from Federalist…
Excerpts from Hamilton's contributions to Federalist Papers 1-20, and an exchange of letters with Angelica Schuyler Church. Once the Constitution was written (see last week's post), it had to be…
In which Hamilton makes a six-hour speech at the Philadelphia Convention of 1787 and goes to battle in print with political foes. Hamilton as New York's junior delegate The meeting that…
Why, where, and whither the Annapolis Convention? For the past several posts, we've focused on Hamilton's activities as a lawyer in New York in the 1780s: defending former loyalists and working…
The 2017 celebration of Hamilton's birthday (his 260th) spans January 7-11: for a list of events, see the Alexander Hamilton Awareness Society's site. I'm planning to attend the Manhattan events on…
In which Hamilton discusses holiday plans with his son. The following letter is from Alexander Hamilton to his son 9-year-old son Philip, who was at school in Trenton. Hamilton was at…
In which Hamilton takes on the slave-owning population of New York. Hamilton writes on slavery during the Revolutionary War Hamilton's earliest comments on slavery date to 1779. While the army…
In which Hamilton faces off against a patriotic popular phrenzy in New York. Meanwhile, in New York Last week Alexander Hamilton survived the Pennsylvania Mutiny and left Congress. But he couldn't…
I know exactly when I fell in love with history: the moment in my sophomore year in college when the archaeology professor put a Greek "little-master" cup in my hands.…
In which Alexander Hamilton lectures Governor George Clinton on keeping one's word, faces off against mutineers and John Dickinson, and, along with the entire Continental Congress, flees Philadelphia. We last…