Posts from Alexander Hamilton: Striver, Statesman, Scoundrel

View, download, and print the official exhibition brochure, or pick up a printed version when you visit the exhibition. If you're an educator planning a field trip to the exhibition, we hope you'll use the brochure in pre- or post-visit lesson plans.

The story of a a sensational murder in early-nineteenth-century New York, told through a young woman's diary.

We often bemoan the recent politicization of the federal courts and especially appointments to the Supreme Court, but this has been a source of political strife since the creation of the federal judiciary. The judicial politics of the Jeffersonian era help explain why the Supreme Court remains such a charged issue in our own time.

Elizabeth De Hart Bleecker lived through a tumultuous period in the history of labor in New York City. Here is a page from her diary, 216 years ago today.