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 ...

When biographer Amanda Vaill read Ron Chernow’s Alexander Hamilton (2004), her first thought, she said in a recent interview, ...

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.

“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 ...

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, ...

Washington Post columnist Megan McArdle recently wrote that the best argument made in favor of limiting the size of the stimulus during the Great Recession — part of a larger conversation about ...

The Post had little love for Napoleon — Ridley’s Scott’s new epic biopic of the one-time Emperor of France. And it turns out Post publisher Alexander Hamilton and his immediate successors at the paper ...

Fans of Alexander Hamilton will soon have a new place of pilgrimage in Philadelphia. Though Philly is best known as the laboratory for American independence, it was also arguably where the American ...

The Supreme Court’s majority opinion in the recent presidential immunity case provides a stark example of how the current court blatantly cherry-picks text and ...