Essays on Alexander Hamilton

Several influential men and women can be accredited as figures that help set up the United States and the pillars for the government it has today. Some, such as John Locke and Aristotle, are known as foreign figures with great ideas that transcended into American...

My fellow Americans. I realize many of you are partial towards Thomas Jefferson, since he was so present during our revolution, but let me introduce you to his federalist, and I dare say, better counterpart, Alexander Hamilton. Hamilton is one of our country’s great political,...

Alexander Hamilton was born as an illegitimate child in Nevis, a small island in the British West Indies. Growing up as an orphan in a time where family and honor were of utmost importance, his situation should have led Hamilton into a downward spiral. Instead,...

Less so than the aristocracy of Great Britain, the class structure in the American colonies played a significant role in society. While this system existed in the colonies, as opposed to Great Britain, it was possible for an orphan with no pedigree or wealth to...