President Donald Trump’s policies are almost the exact opposite of what the founding father recommended, J.W. Mason writes in ...

Ron Chernow, who wrote the bestselling biography of Alexander Hamilton that inspired Lin-Manuel Miranda to create the musical “Hamilton,” has now trained his scholarly eye on Hartford legend ...

Alexander Hamilton was born on January 11 ... Along with John Jay and James Madison, Hamilton wrote "The Federalist," a series of essays that defended the yet-to-be-approved Constitution.

Cooper, attended a dinner party at which Alexander Hamilton spoke forcefully and eloquently against Burr. Cooper later wrote a letter to Philip Schuyler in which he made reference to a ...

Thomas Jefferson (seated left), Alexander Hamilton (standing ... Schuyler in a race for the New York Senate. Unexpectedly, Hamilton wrote a series of letters calling on his fellow Federalists ...

Facing $80 million in debt as Secretary of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton got creative In September ... passionately anti-national bank that he wrote Washington a letter arguing his position.

As historian Paul Bairoch puts it, the U.S. is the “mother country" of protectionism; the earliest arguments for protecting infant industries were put forward in 1791 by Alexander Hamilton ...