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Alexander Hamilton: Adultery and Apology: Observations on Certain Documents in the History of the United States for the Year 1796
No full textWritten by Hamilton himself to confess to the affair he conducted with Maria Reynolds, Alexander Hamilton: Adultery and Apology is Hamilton’s attempt to defend and rationalize his misdoings, and ultimately salvage what was left of his reputation.
The pamphlet was originally published in 1796 after accusations of the adultery arose. This personal exposé reveals a man, whom the public initially revered as a politician and Founding Father, as a flawed human-being. Within these documents Hamilton describes his exploits in impeccable detail and languid prose, at the risk of tarnishing his public image, to prove to the public that he had nothing to hide.
With a new foreword by Robert Watson, presidential scholar and author of Affairs of State, delve into this exquisite, essential account of history’s most scandalous love affairs.https://spiral.lynn.edu/facbooks/1023/thumbnail.jp
Alexander Hamilton: The Man and the Myth
No full textAlexander Hamilton: The Man and the Myth - Roundtable by The 92nd Street Y
(May 14, 2024) Session 1: The Room Where It Happened: Hamilton’s Life and History
(May 21, 2024) Session 2: Behind the Scenes: Hamilton in Fact and Fiction
Ever since Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ron Chernow’s Alexander Hamilton hit the shelves in 2004, the story of this inspiring American military officer, statesman, and Founding Father has captivated our imaginations, and for good reason. As anyone who has seen the blockbuster Broadway production Hamiltoncan tell you, the life and work of this singular American has something inspiring to teach us all.
In this two-part course, you will demystify the history of Alexander Hamilton and compare and contrast the story depicted in the musical with the historical context of Hamilton’s life and politics. You’ll consider the role that creative limits and choices play when adapting a book, or an entire life, to the stage, and conduct a fun fact-checking of the musical while looking at the backstory for some of the show’s main scenes.
You’ll also learn more about Alexander Hamilton’s upbringing and his extraordinary life in politics, covering the “room where it happened” dinner deal that shaped the fledgling nation, his role in creating America’s financial system, and his contribution to drafting the Constitution.
Your expert guide will be Robert Watson, an award-winning author, professor, and historian who has published over forty books on history and politics. He is a Professor at Lynn University in Florida, and serves as the series editor for the long-running scholarly book anthology on the American presidency published by the State University of New York, and as the editor of the popular multi-volume encyclopedia sets The American Presidents and American First Ladies
Episode 4: Alexander Hamilton and the Newburgh Conspiracy
No full textThe Department of History’s Holly Baker sat down with Dr. David Head, historian, author, and lecturer of history at the University of Central Florida in Orlando, Florida. Dr. Head recently gave a talk at the 2017 Research Colloquium titled “Alexander Hamilton and the Newburgh Conspiracy: Military Politics at the Anxious End of the American Revolution”. In the interview with Holly, Dr. Head discusses conspiracy thinking and Alexander Hamilton’s role in the Newburgh affair.https://stars.library.ucf.edu/knightshistorycast/1003/thumbnail.jp
In search of a father: Alexander Hamilton and his father figures
No full textAlexander Hamilton has long been considered a controversial founder. His political and economic beliefs polarized a new nation. Due to his controversial nature, Hamilton’s childhood circumstances were brought to public attention by his adversaries. These childhood experiences would shape not only Hamilton’s political career but would also shape the relationships he built with prominent and influential men and how he interacted with them. This paper aims to reconstruct the relationships Alexander Hamilton had with George Washington, Philip Schuyler, and James Hamilton Sr. in order to deconstruct the impressions of a father/son relationship. This paper will review the impact childhood abandonment can have on adulthood relationships within the colonial context. (Author abstract)Nash, A.M. (2018). In search of a father: Alexander Hamilton and his father figures. Retrieved from http://academicarchive.snhu.eduMaster ArtsHistoryCollege of Online and Continuing Educatio
Alexander Hamilton and the Historians
No full textThe year of 1957 was the 200th anniversary of the birth of Alexander Hamilton--only he was really born in 1755. As befitted such a year,a goodly number of books were put forth by hopeful publishers. What follows will be, at least in part, an evaluation of some of these books and their subject. But first, we ought to ask: Why more of the same? Why more books on a man so well known? We only know the past through the eyes of others. And strangely enough, different eyes see different things when looking at the same subject. In Beveridge\u27s Life of John Marshall, the author deals very harshly with Thomas Jefferson. Ten years later Beveridge wrote that if he were rewriting his great work he would not be quite so positive in his criticism of Jefferson. So even the same eyes see differently at different times
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The Jewish world of Alexander Hamilton /
No full text"In his hit musical "Hamilton," Lin-Manuel Miranda paints Founding Father Alexander Hamilton as the ultimate outsider, the "bastard, orphan, son of a whore," who by sheer grit and smarts achieves political greatness, leaving a permanent mark on the American landscape as the architect of its financial system. In this book Andrew Porwancher argues that the first Secretary of the Treasury and chief author of "The Federalist Papers" was even more of an outsider than previous biographers have noted. Porwancher has uncovered evidence strongly suggesting that Hamilton was born and raised as a Jew - at least until the age of 13, when his mother died. The evidence is not definitive, but it is compelling. Porwancher's story begins in the 1750s in a colony in the Danish West Indies, where Hamilton's mother, Rachel Faucette, married a merchant named Johann Michael Levine, who sometimes went by the name of Lavien, a Sephardic version of Levine. Porwancher is convinced that Levine was Jewish and that Rachel -- born to a Christian family in the British Caribbean -- converted in order to marry him, as was required by Danish law at the time. Faucette's marriage with Levine was troubled, leading her to flee to a nearby British Caribbean colony where she met the Scotsman James Hamilton, who conceived with her the future Founding Father out of wedlock. Assuming Faucette's conversion to Judaism before this birth, Alexander Hamilton was thus born a Jew, according to Jewish law. What is more, there is strong evidence that he was raised with a Jewish education, as he attended a Jewish day school on the island colony of Nevis at least until the age of 13, the year of his mother's death. (It is noteworthy that he is not listed in the island's baptismal records -- although parish records from that era are fragmentary and thus cannot provide definitive conclusions.) At some point, Hamilton began identifying as a Christian, at least by the age of 17, when he arrived in New York. Although as an adult he wrote copiously on seemingly every topic under the sun, he maintained a studied silence about his West Indian -- and, most likely, Jewish -- origins. This is understandable, for without the pretence of a Christian background it is unlikely that the young Hamilton could have advanced socially and professionally in the British colonies to the north. And yet, as Porwancher argues, Hamilton's connections to Jews and Judaism continued throughout his life. During a long professional life as a practicing lawyer and public figure he defended Jewish rights. Notably, he spoke out against antisemitism and ensured that a Jew be appointed to the board of his alma mater, Columbia University - the first Jew on the board of any American college. And although a nominal Christian, Hamilton kept institutional Christianity at arms length throughout his life. (There is no record of him mentioning the church or taking communion.) Porwancher does not overstate his claims, nor does he try to simplify the fact that the lines between Jewish and non-Jewish identity were frequently blurred in the Caribbean world that into which Hamilton was born. What this book does, in the words of the author, is add "the relevance of Judaism to our already rich understanding of Hamilton.""-
Alexander Hamilton : some interpretations from the late 1880's to the present
No full textThe purpose of this thesis has been to examine many of the studies of Alexander Hamilton and his times and to show how and in what sense he has been interpreted since 1882. What have been the determining factors in Hamiltonian interpretation? Why were his policies accorded governmental prestige and sanction in some periods of American history while during other eras they seemed neglected or historically abused? What have been the biases of the authors in relation to the subject and what is the significance of their interpretations? In gathering data for such an undertaking the author has tried to limit the enormous amount of material to those books and articles most pertinent to Hamilton and the institutions he helped to create. For reasons of succinctness many of the general histories of the eras discussed were omitted to give way to the more applicable biographers and historians who dealt directly with Alexander Hamilton. [...]History, Department o
Rough diamond the life of Colonel William Stephen Hamilton, Alexander Hamilton's forgotten son
No full text"Solider, politician, miner, pioneer, scion of the President, William Stephen Hamilton led a prolific life. Rough Diamond: The Life of Colonel William Stephen Hamilton examines the tumultuous early Republic period of American history through the life of Alexander Hamilton's son. Born in New York in 1797, the fifth son of President Alexander Hamilton, he was only six when his father was infamously killed in a duel with Vice President Aaron Burr. After resigning from West Point, Hamilton moved to frontier Illinois in 1817. The famous name of Hamilton that may have acquired him rank and prestige at one time was meaningless in a Midwestern frontier society driven by the Jacksonians. Yet, despite being hurled into a clash of economic, political, and cultural cultures, Hamilton determined to live his life by his own rules. A veteran of the Winnebago and Black Hawk Wars, Hamilton was elected to the Illinois House of Representatives before moving to the Wisconsin territory, where he founded the mining town of Hamilton's Diggings (Wiota, WI). When gold was discovered in California in 1848, he traveled west, where he would die in Sacramento in 1850. In Rough Diamond: The Life of Colonel William Stephen Hamilton, author A. K. Fielding expands the story of the Hamilton family. Hamilton's life offers a firsthand account of the formation of the Midwestern states, the realities of life on the frontier, and mass migration caused by the California Gold Rush"-
A critical edition of Derek Walcott's Omeros
No full textThe thesis is a Critical Edition of Derek Walcott’s Omeros, consisting of a Critical
Introduction and Annotations. The Critical Introduction analyses:
- Narrative
- Settings
- Metaphor and Paronomasia
- Symbolism
- Historiography
- Intertexts
- Dualism
- Autobiography
- Dialects
- Prosody.
The Annotations comment on more than 1000 references that may be obscure and on
specifics of narrative, language and prosody.
This study presents new conclusions about some aspects of Omeros:
- It challenges the prevailing view that the work is written substantially in a
variation of terza rima and shows that regular quatrains predominate.
- It demonstrates ways in which the metrics follow the sense of the narrative and
takes a more balanced position on the use of Caribbean as opposed to classical
metrics than that put forward previously.
- It identifies a paragraphic structure to the verse.
- It proposes a new prosodic structure for the significant Chapter XXX/iii.
- It extends Walcott’s recognised use of numerology into word counting the
names of characters.
- It develops the idea of Walcott’s dualism and his use of pairing and
contradiction as a dialectical method.
- It defines his wide use of paronomasia and shows that many of the puns have a
metaphorical aspect beyond mere word-play.
- It analyses some of Walcott’s symbolism.
- It identifies intertextual links to his earlier works and to some thirty other
writers, and suggests homage to Hemingway and possibly Heaney.
- It provides the first complete analysis of Walcott’s rhyme types in Omeros.
In its analysis of Omeros and in the Annotations it has included commentary from
across the critical literature, to provide some sense of other views on Walcott’s
writing, and has included as many as possible of Walcott’s own comments on Omeros
and on the writer’s task, as a background to understanding the poem
Feuding Fathers: The Competing Economic Visions of Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson
No full textabstract: If one were to go to Virginia today and visit Monticello, the former home of Thomas Jefferson, they would find a building that resembles a museum more so than a home. Inside are paintings, maps, sculptures and even the antlers of many great beasts. But the first thing that will come to a visitor's sight aren’t these wonders, but rather the busts of two men that glare at each other at the entrance of the home. One stands on a pedestal, large and draped in cloth, the other a simple marble statue of a younger man. The former statue depicts Monticello’s owner and the latter is of the first Secretary of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton . One may find this curious, as the two didn’t have a friendship and were often thought of as the cause for the United States becoming a two-party system, due to their disagreements. For Thomas Jefferson the placement of these busts seemed natural as it put him into eternal combat with a man he considered his main political rival.
These two men could not have had more different upbringings; Thomas Jefferson was born to a wealthy family that owned land and slaves, whereas Alexander Hamilton was born on a Caribbean island in poverty, only to be orphaned early on in his life . Despite these differences both men found a common goal in fighting for independence for the American colonies. Jefferson would do so as a diplomat and author of the Declaration of Independence, Hamilton would be a patriot through being a soldier and assistant to General George Washington. Once the war was over, the two continued their service to the country and would find themselves as the first heads of the United States’ cabinet departments. By being in Washington’s cabinet, the two came in conflict with one another frequently on the policy of the time such as the country’s neutrality in foreign affairs. No issue put them more in conflict than their stances on the country’s economic state
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