A rare letter from New York Post founder Alexander Hamilton to James Madison sold this week for $113,850, surging past the original estimate of up to $10,000. The 1790 handwritten missive from America ...
Historian Brands (The Last Campaign) returns with a reliable account of the early American Republic’s political turmoil, concentrating on four well-known figures: John Adams, Alexander Hamilton, ...
Light explains the famed meeting actually occurred in New York, where Hamilton, Jefferson and James Madison agreed the nation would assume states’ debts in return for placing the capital in Washington ...
George Washington was sworn in as the first U. S. President at an inauguration ceremony on April 30, 1789, held on the steps of Federal Hall, 26 Wall Street, a block east of what is now the New York ...
On Wednesday, AEI’s Jay Cost discussed his new book “The Price of Greatness: Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and the Creation of American Oligarchy” (Basic Books, 2018) with Stephen Knott of the ...