Alexander Hamilton is best known as an American Revolutionary-era author, delegate to the Constitutional Convention, and first Secretary of the U.S. Treasury. This statue on display in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol emphasizes his role in the framing of the new nation's government. His right hand holds the Federalist Papers, which he wrote to promote the ratification of the Constitution, and directs attention to his left hand resting upon papers that represent the Constitution.
No show in recent memory has taken Broadway by storm with quite the speed or spirit of Hamilton, Lin-Manuel Miranda's game-changing hip-hop musical about the life and death of the titular Founding...
Alexander Hamilton is best known as an American Revolutionary-era author, delegate to the Constitutional Convention, and first Secretary of the U.S. Treasury. This statue on display in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol emphasizes his role in the framing of the new nation's government. His right hand holds the Federalist Papers, which he wrote to promote the ratification of the Constitution, and directs attention to his left hand resting upon papers that represent the Constitution.
No show in recent memory has taken Broadway by storm with quite the speed or spirit of Hamilton, Lin-Manuel Miranda's game-changing hip-hop musical about the life and death of the titular Founding...
