aaronburrssexdungeon:

just read a lovely article about the manhattan company. 

aaron burr you sly dig them all 

i find it fascinating that he was able to essentially out-fox the entire federalist party and slip in a clause that was able to unite the republicans and give them financial leverage in one little sentence. 

some call this sneaky, and that may be so—from a federalist perspective. but from a republican perspective it was practically a godsend. 

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As someone who had traced the popularity of Jefferson and Hamilton (best summarized as a seesaw), for the longest time (save for a brief period between the aftermath of the Civil War and the Great Depression), Hamilton was without great exaggeration seen as the evil to Jefferson’s good. So for Hamilton to have been picked up, Jefferson had to be knocked off his god pedestal; and yes some Hamiltonian historians have the rose-tinted glasses on just as tightly as certain Jefferson scholars have throughout history.

Burr is interesting because he gets it from both Jeffersonian and Hamiltonian scholars. But I get the feeling his time is coming, at least among scholarly historians.

There’s really nothing that can be done about politicians using the Founders for their own purposes - whether it fits or not - so I don’t bother.

But what do I know, really?

aaronburrssexdungeon:

It is my life’s desire to see a dual biopic of both Hamilton and Burr, tracing their lives and all the weird ways their lives coincided, each painted in an appropriate positive and negative light. 

That is it right there. 

Written by Joanne Freeman.

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hamiltonkitty:

*tries to remember if there is any Hamilton related fanfiction on Tumblr that does not contain some form of slash.*

Tries to remember if there’s two Hamilton het fics on the entire Internet. That fabulous bitch.

I FEEL VERY UNUSUAL RIGHT NOW

I know right?

Like what if they only read the bad fanfiction?

foundingfatherfest:

From the New York Journal, December 5, 1787

What in nature, observes a corresponent, is more despicable than a FOP.  The Fop, says a modern poet, most resembles the gay mushroom; as,

From his own dunghill lately sprung,
So buxom, debonair, and young;
Yet on his brow sits empty scorn,-
“He hates mechanics, meanly born.”
Stranger to merit-genius-sense-
He owes his rise to impudence,
With strutting self-importance fraught,
Free-from each particle of thought;
He’ll not debase himself to think,-
“‘Tis to damn’d low,”-but he will drink.
From his own lips his praises flow,
With-“Damme! I did so and so!-
I’ve e’en in paths of honor trod;
I’d soon, go to hell!-by God!-
Than lose my honor!”-yet his genius
Consists in blasphemy and meanness;
In what true honor interdicts,
And in diverting little tricks.
He’ll, all at once, start from his chair,
Twirls his whip and sing an air,
Dance, to show his grace and shape,
Brisk and sprightly as an-Ape
To the glass he often goes,
There adjusts his stock and clothes,
Meets his image with a glance,
Of the sweetest complaisance.
He’s first,-and oft the only one,-
To laugh at his own jest or pun
Suppose it is wond’rous witty,
But men of sense will-smile and pity.
Such is the hero of my poem,
Readers-you must surely know him.

Harsh, eh?  This poem, published in a newspaper, is apparently about Alexander Hamilton.  This makes those poems about Adams look tame by comparison.

I find this both horribly offense and hilarious.  Obviously I don’t agree with this poet’s evaluation overall, but I’m sure there’s truth in it.  I find the line about Hamilton constantly looking in the mirror and adjusting his stock (a kind of cravat) and clothes amazing and it will stay with me forever.

I’ve posted it multiple times because I love it so. foundingfatherfest.tumb… Just worried that it might not really be about him.

I’m actually completely stumped; I hadn’t come across this before. The timing would be about right, though, for the New York Clintonian anti-federalists were really focusing on Hamilton around this period (I think this was about when ‘immaculate daddy’ came to be).