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…
Added to the original blog post Alexander Hamilton: A Brief Biography and Alexander Hamilton: A Friend to America, volumes 1 and 2, which include all my Hamilton blogs posts, are now available as full-color printed…
At 48 Wall Street, in the Museum of American Finance, I was recently delighted to discover a series of eight huge murals whose content and style I like very much.…
As I read about the 1782-1783 session of the Continental Congress, I started to wonder whether New York State's legislature sent Alexander Hamilton as a delegate to Congress because they…
Last week, I intended to post on Hamilton's 1782-1783 term in Congress, but got distracted by Hamilton's role in the Newburgh Conspiracy (March 1783), which could have led to a…
In July 1782, Alexander Hamilton passed the bar in New York State, became the state's tax receiver, and was appointed a delegate for New York State to the Continental Congress,…
When I see an exhibition of an artist I'm unfamiliar with, I always ask: Why do I like or dislike his work? And are there any of his works that…
In early 1782, the Siege of Yorktown was over, but the British government had not yet admitted defeat. Without hindsight, it was impossible to know whether or not the Revolutionary War…
By late December 1781, Alexander Hamilton was recovering from the Yorktown campaign at the Schuyler family mansion in Albany - still so exhausted that he hardly wrote any letters (see…
In October 1781, immediately after the British surrendered at Yorktown, Hamilton set off on the three-week trip to Albany, arriving there in November. By December 29, 1781, he was writing to his…