i am 89% sure this is how Hamilton’s enemies just viewed him on a regular basis
THE UNICORN
Reblog Reblog Reblog!
Don’t lose hope. If it’s being shelved and edited there’s still time to make Congress do the smart thing and consult people who actually know how the internet works.
They’re probably hoping the hype will die down and they’ll be able to quietly do whatever they want, which will inevitably be a huge problem for all of us. Don’t let it. Keep up with what’s happening and keep pestering your congresspeople.
I wish I could go back and save Laurens :(
Alexander Hamilton and John Laurens, detailed from Surrender of Cornwallis At Yorktown by John Trumball
“The death deprived Hamilton of the political peer, the steadfast colleague, that he was to need in his tempestuous battles to consolidate the union. He would enjoy a brief collaboration with James Madison and never lacked the stalwart if often aloof patronage of George Washington. But he was more of a solitary crusader without Laurens, lacking an intimate lifelong ally such as Jefferson and Madison found in each other. On a personal level, the loss was even more harrowing. Despite a large circle of admirers, Hamilton did not form deep friendships easily and never again revealed his interior life to another man as he had to Laurens. He became ever more voluble in his public life but somehow less introspective and revelatory in private. Henceforth, his confessional remarks were reserved for Eliza or Angelica Church. After the death of John Laurens, Hamilton shut off some compartment of his emotions and never reopened it.”
Ron Chernow, Alexander Hamilton.
My AP US History teacher likes to joke.
Today he says “Hamilton was Washington’s ‘fair-hair boy’, what ever he says, Washington listens”..
When we talk about the French Revolution, he says “One day Washington called in Hamilton and said to him ‘Come here, my fair-hair boy, sit on my lap —- tell me, should we help the French?’”
I: *thinking about all the slash fics*
I love my History teacher so much
