Essays on Hamilton

Throughout the Broadway show Hamilton, songs are used to not only show the audience what is happening, but to convey the emotions of various characters in various points in time. This can be done through the repetition of certain lines from previous songs, but also...

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....

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...