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Further Reading/Websites
Alexander Hamilton: The Man Who Made Modern America
http://www.alexanderhamiltonexhibition.org/
See key documents from the life of Alexander Hamilton, take a
Hamilton quiz, and visit the New York and New Jersey Hamilton knew
on this companion Web site to The New-York Historical Society's
traveling exhibit about Hamilton.
Alexander
Hamilton: The West Indian "Founding Father"
http://virignislandspace.org/Division
of Libraries/cisselpaper.pdf
by William
F. Cissel Historian, Christiansted National Historic Site, National
Park Service,U.S. Department of the Interior
Alexander
Hamilton: "Myth, Legend, Reality"
http://virignislandspace.org/Division
of Libraries/cisselpaper.pdf
by William
F. Cissel Historian, Christiansted National Historic Site, National
Park Service,U.S. Department of the Interior
The
Federalist Papers
http://thomas.loc.gov/home/histdox/fedpapers.html
The Library of Congress offers full text of the 85 essays that
present Hamilton's famous argument in favor of ratifying the U.S.
Constitution.
U.S.
Citizenship and Civics Study Materials
http://www.uscis.gov/portal/site/uscis
Make Hamilton proud! Visit the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration
Services Web site and brush up on the essential facts all Americans
should know. In their Education & Resources section, the USCIS
offers sample U.S. history and government questions to prepare
immigrants for the naturalization test -- but you don't have to be
an immigrant to learn more about the United States. The site also
offers printable pocket versions of the Declaration of Independence
and the U.S. Constitution.
Alexander Hamilton and the Creation of the United States
http://www.gilderlehrman.org/collection/online/hamilton/index.html
The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History has assembled
several dozen documents and objects related to Hamilton in this
online exhibit. See money from the 1780s, portraits and documents,
and a draft of Hamilton's farewell letter to his wife.
The
Federal Reserve: A History of Central Banking
http://www.minneapolisfed.org/centralbankhistory/
The Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis provides a brief history of
central banks in the United States.
American Experience: The Duel
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/duel/
Learn about politics in the early American republic and the deadly
duel between Hamilton and Aaron Burr.
American Experience: John & Abigail Adams
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/adams/
Explore the world of Hamilton's fellow Federalist and the United
States' second president. This companion site includes an
interactive map, Sites of Liberty; excerpts from the Adamses'
letters describing the revolution; Adams Unbound, a look at Adams'
comments on governments and human nature, and more.
American Experience: The Great Fever
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/fever/
A deadly disease took Hamilton's mother from him when he was just a
teenager. Learn more about how yellow fever ravaged the colonial
Americas -- and discover how it was stopped.
Books
Adair,
Douglass. Edited by Trevor Colbourn. Fame and the Founding
Fathers. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1974.
Bailyn,
Bernard. The Debate on the Constitution. New York: The
Library of America, 1993.
Baldwin,
Leland Dewitt. Whiskey Rebels. Pittsburgh: University of
Pittsburgh Press, 1939.
Berkin, Carol.
A Brilliant Solution: Inventing the American Constitution.
New York: Harcourt, 2002.
Bernstein, R.
B. Thomas Jefferson. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.
Bowling,
Kenneth B. The Creation of Washington D.C.: The Ideas and the
Location of the American Capitol. Fairfax, Virginia: George
Mason University Press, 1991.
Brookhiser,
Richard. Alexander Hamilton: American. New York: The Free
Press, 1999.
Chernow, Ron.
Alexander Hamilton. New York: The Penguin Press, 2004.
Cunningham,
Noble E. Jefferson v. Hamilton: Confrontations that Shaped a
Nation. New York: St Martin's, 2000.
Elkins,
Stanley and Eric McKitrick. The Age of Federalism. New York:
Oxford University Press, 1993.
Elkins,
Stanley. The Age of Federalism. New York: Oxford University
Press, 1993.
Ellis, Joseph
J. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation. New York:
Alfred A. Knopf, 2000.
Fleming,
Thomas. Duel: Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr, and the Future of
America. New York: Basic Books, 1999.
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Mysteries of My Father. Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley and
Sons, 2005.
Flexner, James
Thomas. The Young Hamilton. Boston: Little, Brown, 1978.
Freeman,
Joanne. Affairs of Honor. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale
University Press, 2001.
Hamilton,
Alexander. Writings. Selected by Joanne Freeman with notes.
New York: Library of America, 2001.
Hamilton,
Allan. The Intimate Life of Alexander Hamilton. New York:
Charles Scribner's Sons, 1911.
Harper, John
Lamberton. American Machiavelli: Alexander Hamilton and the
Origins of U.S. Foreign Policy. New York: Cambridge University
Press, 2004.
Hecht, Marie
B. Odd Destiny: The Life of Alexander Hamilton. New York:
MacMillan, 1982.
Kline,
Mary-Jo, editor Alexander Hamilton: A Biography in His Own Words.
New York: Harper and Row, 1973.
Knott, Stephen
F. Hamilton and the Persistence of Myth. Lawrence, Kansas:
University Press of Kansas, 2005.
Lomask,
Milton. Aaron Burr. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
1979.
McDonald,
Forrest. Alexander Hamilton: A Biography. New York: Norton,
1979.
Miller, John
C. Alexander Hamilton: Portrait in Paradox. New York: Harper,
1959.
Mitchell,
Broadus. Alexander Hamilton: The Revolutionary Years. New
York: Crowell, 1970.
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Alexander Hamilton: The National Adventure 1788-1804. New York:
MacMillan, 1962.
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Alexander Hamilton: Youth to Maturity 1755-1788. New York:
MacMillan, 1957.
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Heritage from Hamilton. New York: Columbia University Press,
1957.
Morris,
Richard B. Seven Who Shaped our Destiny: The Founding Fathers as
Revolutionaries. New York: Harper and Row, 1973.
----. The
Basic Ideas of Alexander Hamilton. New York: Washington Square
Press, 1965.
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Witnesses at the Creation: Hamilton, Madison, Jay and the
Constitution. New York: New American Library, 1985.
Padover, Saul.
The Complete Jefferson. New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce,
1943.
Randall,
Willard Stern. Alexander Hamilton: A Life. New York: Harper
Collins, 2003.
Rosenfeld,
Richard N. American Aurora. New York: St. Martin's Press,
2000.
Rossiter,
Clinton. The Federalist Papers: Alexander Hamilton, James
Madison, and John Jay.. New York: New America Library, 1961.
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Alexander Hamilton and the Constitution. New York: Harcourt,
Brace and World, 1964.
Schachner,
Nathan. Alexander Hamilton. New York: T. Yoseloff, 1957.
Starkey,
Marion. Lace Cuffs and Leather Aprons: Popular Struggles in the
Federalist Era 1783-1800. New York: Knopf, 1972.
Stewart,
Donald H. The Opposition Press of the Federalist Period.
Albany, New York: State University Press of New York, 1969.
Syrett,
Harold, editor. Papers of Alexander Hamilton: Volume I to XXVI.
New York: Columbia University Press, 1979.
Walling,
Karl-Friedrich. Republican Empire: Alexander Hamilton on War and
Free Government. Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas,
1999.
Weisberger,
Bernard A. America Afire: Jefferson, Adams, and the Revolutionary
Election of 1800. New York: William Morrow, 2000.
Wills, Garry.
Explaining America: The Federalist. Garden City, New York:
Doubleday, 1981.
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