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…
Why choose just one? Here's a selection of my favorite New Year's cards from New York Public Library's digital collections: a little corny, a lot sincere. Most of them probably…
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…
Jewelry on Madison Avenue, in the 60s More on Madison Avenue Bergdorf Goodman, Fifth Avenue at 59th Tiffany, Fifth Avenue at 57th St. Time Warner Center Rockefeller Center New York…
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…
For the Museum of the American Revolution in Philadelphia (opening April 19, 2017), StudioEIS was commissioned to recreate the equestrian statue of King George III that once stood in New York.…
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…
How do you do show slides when the audience is too large to peer at your laptop, and there's no TV or audio-visual equipment in the room - not even…