Alexander Hamilton

From William McKinley to Ronald Reagan, Donald Trump has plenty of precedent if he's looking for it.

Were the founders really warning us about Trump, or were they just playing politics, too?

Projected to earn $1 billion and earning Tony-Award glory, 'Hamilton' the musical is still going strong in backyards and classrooms across the country.

It started with a hatred of crony capitalism.

In the 19th century, Jackson broadened the electorate, but the self-righteousness of some Democrats impedes their efforts to do the same.

A madman versus a crook? Unexpected twists? Fake news? Welcome to the election of 1800.

Hamilton is less a new vision of the past than a translation of the sacred stories of American civil religion into the vernacular.

James Callender spread scurrilous rumors about Alexander Hamilton and John Adams. Then he turned on Thomas Jefferson, too.

We can learn more from him in today's political world.

"It's still white history. And no amount of casting people of color disguises the fact that they're erasing people of color from the actual narrative."

How the hit musical allows those who have been left out of the story to claim the narrative of America as their own.

A more sympathetic look at Aaron Burr, the man who killed Alexander Hamilton.

A review of a handful of new books that embody the new liberal originalism.

Though the Declaration has become familiar to us, the real meaning behind it is all too obscured.

Their wealthy successors are still waging class war.

How a printer's risky defiance of a colonial governor, and his attorney's creative defense, laid the foundation for the US's commitment to freedom of the press.

Can our 18th-century institutions survive 21st-century technology?

Slam Frank and musical theater’s Hamilton bind.

Pasquale Paoli was a “small fish fighting an entire empire.” Four thousand miles away, the founding fathers were watching and taking notes.

Past conflicts eroded Congress’s ability to decide when to go to war. Donald Trump’s attack on Iran destroyed it.