“What’s your name, man? Alexander Hamilton.” Whether you’re a history buff or a musical lover, it’s likely you know a thing or two about Alexander Hamilton—one of America’s most influential founding ...

The books up for bids in this week’s Professor Parsons’ Picks silent auction, sponsored by the Friends of A.K. Smiley Public Library, were published between 1892 and the 1950s. They are “A Sentimental ...

Andrew Porwancher is uncomfortable drawing comparisons between himself and Lin-Manuel Miranda, the creator of the musical “Hamilton.” “I’m hesitant to say that Lin-Manuel Miranda and I are engaged in ...

Alexander Hamilton, the first U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, is somewhat of a pop culture phenomenon thanks to a hit musical about his life. But a new book called The Hamilton Scheme dives into a ...

Significant figures in the social and political circles that shaped revolutionary America, the Schuyler sisters found ways to ...

Ron Chernow, who wrote the bestselling biography of Alexander Hamilton that inspired Lin-Manuel Miranda to create the musical “Hamilton,” has now trained his scholarly eye on Hartford legend Mark ...

The best historical fiction folds real events into a plausible narrative, with a soupçon of embellishment, without distorting the facts while making these events as relevant as today’s incidents.

Columbia University Press/Museum of American Finance, $29.95, 360 pages Some people will remember reading about Alexander Hamilton in their history books due to his fatal July 11, 1804, duel with Vice ...

“Alexander Hamilton” by Ron Chernow. So the hype got to you, you finally checked out “Hamilton” on Disney Plus and now you want to learn everything you can about the influential figures in American ...

History lesson:Hamilton. It’s a hit Broadway show and a hot ticket for celebrities and even the president of the United States. It’s won the Pulitzer Prize and a Grammy Award. And now the musical that ...

Before Lin Manuel Miranda took his story to the stage, Alexander Hamilton was the answer to a trivia question, the subject of a few pages of a text book. He had a place on the $10 bill, but no hold on ...