In Hamilton: An American Musical, stage writer and performer Lin-Manuel Miranda cast the republic’s first Treasury secretary as a larger-than-life hero worthy of...well, a Broadway show. The Independent Review’s symposium about the musical assesses its potential impact on the public’s understanding of the American Founding.
Hamilton on Broadway and the Founding in American Culture
An Introduction
By Matthew E. Brown
This article
appeared in
the Spring 2017 issue of The Independent Review.
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| Other Independent Review articles by Matthew E. Brown | |
| Spring 2017 | A Founding, If You Can Keep It |
| Winter 2003/04 | Can the Past and the Future Coexist? |
