Essays on Hamilton

With 11 Tony Awards and over 1 million copies of its soundtrack sold, it is no doubt that the musical, Hamilton, has grabbed America’s attention since its debut in 2015. The unlikely star of the production, Alexander Hamilton, is brought back to life through the...

Alexander Hamilton experienced a rough childhood growing up on the Caribbean islands of Nevis and St. Croix. His parents were not married, making him an illegitimate child. They did not have enough money to send him to school, so he did not have a formal...

In 1950’s America, women were ensnared in suffocating gender roles. It was a retroactive decade in feminist history compared the power women had in the work force in the 1940s and the progression to come in the 1960s. Bound to the home and pressured by...

On July 11th, 1804 Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton were rowed across the Hudson River in separate boats; they were going to duel. Burr was accompanied by his loyal protg, William Van Ness; Hamilton brought with him Dr. David Hosack and his devotee, Nathaniel Pendleton....

John Steele Gordon for the past 20 years has been a very highly experienced specialist in the business field. As well as being an author of many scholarly books, he was a contributing editor to American Heritage, written by John Steele Gordon. The argument that...

Hamilton: An American Musical, or more commonly known as simply Hamilton, is a Broadway play, lyrics, and music written by Lin-Manuel Miranda, a book written by the same man, Lin-Manuel also takes the role of Alexander in the musical. Lin-Manuel was inspired by a 2004...

The 1950s saw a significant rise in commercialism and mass culture. The world was becoming more and more superficial and artists such as Richard Hamilton used art to analyze and criticize the commercial world. Using text and image Richard Hamilton appealed to the everyday person,...

Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson were two of the most important figures to the development of the American political parties. Though these two men came from very different backgrounds, they both sought a way to develop and improve the American republic. Alexander Hamilton came from...