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…
Thanksgiving, said Ayn Rand, is the "producers' holiday." Since I'm hanging out in the eighteenth century with Alexander Hamilton, I thought I'd share his contemporary Patrick Henry's vision of America's…
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…
I read these books in mid-2016: fiction and nonfiction, high- and low-brow, more or less in this order. Part 1 is here, Part 2 is here. HEYER, Georgette. Regency Buck.…
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…
Through January 8, 2017, the Metropolitan Museum is showing Fragonard: Drawing Triumphant. The exhibition includes about 100 drawings by this top-notch 18th-century artist, some from the MMA, others from private collections…
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…