Alexander Hamilton | smithsonianmag.comhttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/rss/tag/alexander-hamilton/RSS feed for Alexander HamiltonenMon, 02 Feb 2026 13:00:00 +0000What Are the Best TV Shows About the American Revolution? A Historian Outlines Five of His Favoriteshttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/what-are-the-best-tv-shows-about-the-american-revolution-a-historian-outlines-five-of-his-favorites-180987995/The scholar's picks include "Turn: Washington’s Spies," "John Adams" and "Franklin"Mon, 02 Feb 2026 13:00:00 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/what-are-the-best-tv-shows-about-the-american-revolution-a-historian-outlines-five-of-his-favorites-180987995/Did an Enslaved Chocolatier Help Hercules Mulligan Foil a Plot to Assassinate George Washington?https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/did-an-enslaved-chocolatier-help-hercules-mulligan-foil-a-plot-to-assassinate-george-washington-180987327/New research sheds light on the possible identity of Cato, the Black man who conveyed the tailor's lifesaving intelligence to the Americans during the Revolutionary WarTue, 16 Sep 2025 11:15:00 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/did-an-enslaved-chocolatier-help-hercules-mulligan-foil-a-plot-to-assassinate-george-washington-180987327/The Founding Father Who Lost a Leg, Romanced Married and Single Women Alike, and Escaped the Bloodshed of the French Revolutionhttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-founding-father-who-lost-a-leg-romanced-married-and-single-women-alike-and-escaped-the-bloodshed-of-the-french-revolution-180987242/Gouverneur Morris wrote the preamble to the Constitution and shaped the future of the nascent United States. Later in life, he rejected the foundational document as a failureTue, 02 Sep 2025 10:30:00 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-founding-father-who-lost-a-leg-romanced-married-and-single-women-alike-and-escaped-the-bloodshed-of-the-french-revolution-180987242/How George Washington Wrote His Farewell Addresshttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/how-george-washington-wrote-farewell-address-180982346/A candle stand used by the first president illuminates his extraordinary last days in officeFri, 23 Jun 2023 12:00:00 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/how-george-washington-wrote-farewell-address-180982346/The Woman Who Saved the Statue of Libertyhttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-woman-who-saved-the-statue-of-liberty-180982100/Georgina Schuyler campaigned for Emma Lazarus' "The New Colossus" to be inscribed on a plaque in the monument's pedestalThu, 04 May 2023 18:15:00 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-woman-who-saved-the-statue-of-liberty-180982100/What the Nation's Founders Said About the Indictment of a Former Presidenthttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/what-the-nations-founders-said-about-the-indictment-of-a-former-president-180981946/Alexander Hamilton wrote that a commander in chief removed from office would be "liable to prosecution and punishment"Thu, 06 Apr 2023 17:39:53 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/what-the-nations-founders-said-about-the-indictment-of-a-former-president-180981946/The Pitfalls and Promise of America's Founding Mythshttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/determining-americas-national-myth-will-determine-countrys-fate-180977067/Maintaining a shared sense of nationhood has always been a struggle for a country defined not by organic ties, but by a commitment to a set of idealsMon, 22 Feb 2021 17:42:53 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/determining-americas-national-myth-will-determine-countrys-fate-180977067/How John Adams Managed a Peaceful Transition of Presidential Powerhttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-john-adams-managed-peaceful-transition-presidential-power-180976451/In the election of 1800, for the first time in U.S. history, one party turned the executive office to anotherMon, 07 Dec 2020 12:00:00 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-john-adams-managed-peaceful-transition-presidential-power-180976451/New Research Suggests Alexander Hamilton Was a Slave Ownerhttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/new-research-alexander-hamilton-slave-owner-180976260/Often portrayed as an abolitionist, Hamilton may have enslaved people in his own householdTue, 10 Nov 2020 19:48:03 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/new-research-alexander-hamilton-slave-owner-180976260/The World's Most Expensive Coin Is Up for Salehttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/worlds-most-expensive-coin-be-auctioned-180975705/Expected to fetch upward of $10 million, the 1794 Flowing Hair dollar was one of the first coins struck by the newly created U.S. MintWed, 02 Sep 2020 15:15:34 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/worlds-most-expensive-coin-be-auctioned-180975705/