History Now Essay Making a Film about Alexander Hamilton Muffie Meyer A few years ago, my colleagues and I made a documentary, Alexander Hamilton , for the Public Television series American Experience . When it was completed, we did a lot of screenings, interviews, and Q&As for all kinds of... Appears in: 44 | Alexander Hamilton in the American Imagination Winter 2016
News Hamilton’s Love Letter: On This Day, December 14 On December 14, 1780, Alexander Hamilton married Elizabeth Schuyler, the second daughter of wealthy patriot Philip Schuyler. One of our favorite documents in the Gilder Lehrman Collection is a love letter from Hamilton to Elizabeth ,...
News Common Sense Published: On This Day, January 10 Did you know that the most popular written work in American history was published before America was an actual nation of its own? On January 10, 1776, six months before the adoption of the Declaration of Independence by the...