Lin-Manuel Miranda

"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 Amanda Vaill gave Eliza and Angelica Schuyler their due.

The young Founder’s evocative account of the tempest inspired people to send him to the Colonies for a formal education.

Hamilton is an impossibly slippery text. The arguments over the show are part of what make it great.

If “Hamilton” is subversive, the mischievous Reed asks, what is it subverting?

In a new book, top historians discuss the musical’s educational value, historical accuracy and racial revisionism.

Fact-checking the lyrics of Miranda's new song.

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

Too often, we look to history not to understand it, but to seek out confirmation for our preexisting beliefs. That’s a problem.

Why liberals have embraced our most dangerously reactionary founder.

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

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

The popular musical poses Alexander Hamilton as a symbol of the value of immigrants brought to America, but over time, his party became increasingly xenophobic.

Tracing the family history of some of today's most popular celebrities.

Experiencing history in Assassin’s Creed.

A Pulitzer Prize winner punches down.

Throughout his career, Hamilton acted as a middleman for his family and friends to purchase enslaved people.

The hope for historical vindication is loud now but not new.

Who tells our stories has always mattered.

In “Radical Hamilton,” Christian Parenti argues that the left should use Alexander Hamilton’s mythologized status to drive home his full agenda.