linmanuel:

publius-esquire:

lilacblossoms:

Sometimes I think: surely Hamilton and Burr’s lives could not have been as intertwined as the musical says. Like, obviously it’s artistic license to make a better story.

And then I find out stuff like:

Hamilton confronted Monroe over the leakage of the supposedly confidential documents. Monroe denied any responsibility. Hamilton called him a liar and Monroe retorted that Hamilton was a scoundrel and challenged him to a duel. Interestingly, the duel was averted by the intercession of none other than Aaron Burr.^[3]  x

and

Prior to this, Maria Reynolds had divorced James Reynolds; her attorney in the proceedings was none other than Burr who would eventually kill Hamilton in their infamous 1804 duel.

like…

how?!?!?! @_@

Even better:

The next year [1772], Hamilton published two more poems in the paper, now recreating himself as a somber religious poet. The change in heart can almost certainly be attributed to the advent in St. Croix of a Presbyterian minister named Hugh Knox. Born in northern Ireland of Scottish ancestry, the handsome young Knox migrated to America and became a schoolteacher in Delaware. As a raffish young man, he exhibited a lukewarm piety until a strange incident transformed his life. One Saturday at a local tavern where he was a regular, Knox amused his tipsy companions with a mocking imitation of a sermon delivered by his patron, the Reverend John Rodgers. Afterward, Knox sat down, shaken by his own impiety but also moved by the sermon that still reverberated in his mind. He decided to study divinity at the College of New Jersey (later Princeton) under its president, Aaron Burr, an eminent divine and father of the man who became Hamilton’s nemesis. It is almost certainly from Knox’s lips that Alexander Hamilton first heard the name of Aaron Burr.

Ron Chernow, Alexander Hamilton

I love that you’re reading up on this. Welcome to the past 7 years of my life.