On July 11, 1804, Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr met on the dueling grounds at Weehawken, New Jersey, to fight the final skirmish of a long-lived political and personal battle. When the duel ...

That document, and the new government that emerged from it, would in large part owe their very survival to Alexander Hamilton. Hamilton, who served as one of three New York delegates to the ...

Facing $80 million in debt as Secretary of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton got creative In September 1789, President George Washington assigned Alexander Hamilton the task of solving the ...

Alexander Hamilton was a pretty busy guy. Heck, the whole song "Non-Stop" in Lin-Manuel Miranda's smash Broadway hit "Hamilton" is dedicated to the man's meteoric rise from orphaned Nevis ...

Thomas Jefferson (seated left), Alexander Hamilton (standing) and George Washington (seated right). Each political party had put up two candidates, one that they intended to be president and the ...