Aaron Burr

Birth of Culture and Musical Theater The lady smiles while she directs you to your seat. “Third row down, to the two seats at the very left side.” You find your seat as you comfortably start to settle down making sure that you can see the stage since you paid a little more money in order for you to be at the very front closer to the actors. The energy feels excited but still content. You hear the rest of the people talking quietly to the person next to them. The third bell rung however, the…

“How does a bastard, orphan, son of a whore / And a Scotsman, dropped in the middle of a forgotten spot in the Caribbean by providence impoverished, / In squalor, grow up to be a hero and a scholar?” (Alexander Hamilton). The opening line of Lin Manuel Miranda’s Broadway hit “Hamilton”, is also the musical’s defining question. The rags to riches tale of Alexander Hamilton has captivated audiences perhaps like no musical before and with a staggering amount of immigrants entering the United States…

Sources could have an untrusted narrator, for example, if Aaron Burr had written something about Alexander Hamilton, it could be colored by their personal and political differences, and we would not be able to trust it, even though it is an authentic source. Moreover, Woodrow Wilson was widely known to hold discriminatory…

Powderly William Graham Sumner John P. Altgeld Samuel Gompers What was the impact of the transcontinental rail system on the American economy and society in the late nineteenth century? 2) How did the huge industrial trusts develop in industries such as steel and oil, and what was their effect on the economy? 3) What was the effect of the new industrial revolution on American laborers, and how did various labor organizations attempt to respond to the new conditions? 4) The…