The claim: Alexander Hamilton told Thomas Jefferson that there weren’t enough words to string together in the English language to express how much he wanted to hit him with a chair Alexander ...

The founding father who rose from poverty to power and fame is again the talk of New York. There is a dazzling new hip-hop musical, Hamilton, written by and starring Lin-Manuel Miranda, and the ...

On March 21, 1790, Thomas Jefferson belatedly arrived in New York City to assume his duties as the first Secretary of State after a five-year ministerial stint in Paris. Tall and lanky, with a ...

Aaron Burr, who was serving as President Thomas Jefferson's vice president, mortally wounded Alexander Hamilton, the first secretary of the Treasury, in a pistol duel on this day in history, July 11, ...

In his 2007 book, “The Great Upheaval: America and the Birth of the Modern World, 1788-1800,” historian Jay Winik writes that among Thomas Jefferson, Alexander ...

Introduction: The founders and the Enlightenment -- The greatness of George Washington -- The invention of Benjamin Franklin -- The trials and tribulations of Thomas Jefferson -- Alexander Hamilton ...

When asked by strangers what he did for a living, the poet W.H. Auden preferred to respond that he was a “medieval historian” because it “withers curiosity.” As a newspaper editor, and particularly a ...