This is the metadata section. Skip to content viewer section. Hamilton's 1791 state paper on manufactures is a forward-looking argument for US industrialization supported by public policies designed ...

Alexander Hamilton is born on the British island of Nevis in the West Indies, the second of two boys. His father James is a Scottish trader of noble ancestry. His mother Rachel Faucett ...

Courtesy: National Heritage Museum, Lexington, MA. Though they worked in close proximity for years, Alexander Hamilton and George Washington never became close friends; different positions and ...

A candle stand used by the first president illuminates his extraordinary last days in office Alexis Coe Georgina Schuyler campaigned for Emma Lazarus' "The New Colossus" to be inscribed on a ...