Alexander Hamilton

240 years after the American Revolution, debates over how to interpret the conflict and its leaders continue.

The role of "big government" in American history.

An explanation of the Manhattan Company, a bank disguised as a municipal water corporation that helped to transform Early Republican politics.

On factional strife in the Early Republic, and why parties themselves were universally despised.

In the 1780s, medical schools used cadavers stolen from the cemeteries of slaves.

Fisher Ames’s philosophy can be summed up as follows: the “power of the people, if uncontroverted, is licentious and mobbish.”

George Washington scales new heights.

What replaced imprisonment for debt was something that has become a mainstay of American life: bankruptcy.