Alexander Hamilton, the first U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, is somewhat of a pop culture phenomenon thanks to a hit musical about his life. But a new book called The Hamilton Scheme dives into a ...

The Schuyler Sisters are stepping into the spotlight in a new biography from Amanda Vaill. Pride and Pleasure reintroduces ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Ron Chernow, author of the best-selling biography of Alexander Hamilton and collaborator on the award-winning musical 'Hamilton' based on his book, appeared at an evening forum ...

When biographer Amanda Vaill read Ron Chernow’s Alexander Hamilton (2004), her first thought, she said in a recent interview, ...

Samuel Langhorne Clemens may well have led a happier life if he had remained a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi. But then he never would have become Mark Twain — with all the heartache, frustration ...

Before Lin-Manuel Miranda gave them voice, Eliza and Angelica Schuyler were known primarily to scholars of the American ...

Andrew Porwancher is uncomfortable drawing comparisons between himself and Lin-Manuel Miranda, the creator of the musical “Hamilton.” “I’m hesitant to say that Lin-Manuel Miranda and I are engaged in ...

“Mark Twain” is from Ron Chernow, the Pulitzer-Prize-winning author of biographies of Alexander Hamilton (Chernow’s biography is the source of the hit Broadway musical), George Washington, and Ulysses ...