In 1776, the "old money" families in New York - the ones that had been around in Dutch times and had continued to thrive for a century under the British -…
The pamphlet Common Sense, which Angelica mentions in "The Schuyler Sisters," was published anonymously in Philadelphia, on January 10, 1776. Within a few months, British expatriate Thomas Paine was known to be…
Dear Alexander, I'm having a torrid marriage with a man much, much younger than you, and our 30th anniversary is almost here. I need to take a week off to…
Last week I expressed my profound dissatisfaction at not being able to read in full a letter published in early 1776 in the Royal Danish American Gazette, which Chernow (p. 72) uses to…
Have you stopped to think about the way "My Shot" builds on the opening number of Hamilton: An American Musical? It sets him up as a young hero eager to change the…
If you need a dose of Hamilton after Hamilton, here's half a dozen places to visit where you can take selfies with Alexander or walk in his footsteps. But first ...…
On November 26, 1783 - the day the British finally evacuated New York - General George Washington rode down Broadway with New York Governor George Clinton, amid the applause of…
Lord Acton wrote that Lafayette taught his compatriots the American "theory of revolution, not their theory of government - their cutting, not their sewing." Gouverneur Morris told George Washington that…
John Laurens didn't live to see the end of the American Revolution. He died at age 27, killed by the British ten months after Yorktown - which was only recognized in…
The earliest surviving letter by Hamilton is dated November 11, 1769. It was written by 12-year-old Alexander, who had lost his mother a year earlier, to his friend (half-brother?) Edward Stevens, who…