Alexander Hamilton and the Creation of the United States (Online Exhibit)

Alexander Hamilton has been enjoying a renaissance. Indeed, Americans in the twenty-first century may admire Hamilton more than any generation since the founders themselves. An immigrant from the Caribbean, a disadvantaged orphan who became a war hero, a self-made man who rose to become a framer of the Constitution and architect of the American financial system, and ahead of his time in his opposition to slavery, Hamilton offers the modern reader much to admire.

This exhibition was created by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History in support of the American Experience film Alexander Hamilton.