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…
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.…