Alexander Hamilton played important roles in the founding of the United States. He served in the Continental Army, helped frame the United States Constitution, and helped place the United States on a secure economic footing with his work as the first Secretary of the Treasury.
But how did Hamilton come to know so much about the economic systems that could help the new United States build a strong economic footing?
Why did Hamilton work for and believe that the new United States should be a nation that welcomed all religions and forms of religious worship?
Andrew Porwacher, the Wick Cary Associate Professor of History at the University of Oklahoma and the Ernest May Fellow at Harvard University’s Belfer Center, joins us to investigate the Jewish world and upbringing of Alexander Hamilton.
Show Notes: https://www.benfranklinsworld.com/335
Join Ben Franklin's World!
Sponsor Links
Complementary Episodes
Listen!
Helpful Links
085 American Loyalists in Canada
084 How Historians Read Historical Sources (Doing History)
083 Unfreedom: Slavery in Colonial Boston
082 Information & Communication in the Early American South
081 After Yorktown: The Final Struggle for American Independence
080 Liberty's Prisoners: Prisons & Prison Life in Early America
079 What is a Historical Source? (Doing History)
078 Washington Brotherhood: Politics, Social Life, and the Coming of the Civil War
077 The Oregon Trail
076 Citizen Sailors: Becoming American in the Age of Revolution
075 How Archives Work (Doing History)
074 Martha Washington
073 The Bible in Early America
072 The American Civil War
071 Saratoga and Hubbardton, 1777
070 How Historians Research (Doing History)
069 Law, Order, and Sexual Misconduct in Colonial New England
068 Founders' Son: A Life of Abraham Lincoln
067 An Environmental History of Early California & Hawaii
066 How Historians Find Their Research Topics (Doing History)
Create your
podcast in
minutes
It is Free
American Revolution Podcast
Revolutions
Key Battles of the Revolutionary War
Dispatches: The Podcast of the Journal of the American Revolution
Patriot Lessons: American History and Civics (Constitution, Declaration of Independence, etc.)