Name/Title
Alexander Hamilton and the Creation of the United StatesEntry/Object ID
2015.021.003Scope and Content
ALEXANDER HAMILTON AND THE CREATION OF THE UNITED STATES. Collection of multimedia materials in a "History in a Box" including: 240-pp paperback biography of Alexander Hamilton, "The Man Who Made Modern America"; DVD of 6 lectures plus a video of the NY Historical Society exhibition on Hamilton; DVD of a play "Alexander Hamilton in Worlds Unknown"; booklet of 35 pp and an Educator's Guide, with CD ROM of both, on Hamilton; Discussion questions on Washington, Burr, Federalist Papers, NY African Free School No. 2, Money in the Founding Era; Timeline poster on Hamilton and world events of his era; 11" x 17" portraits of Hamilton and Jefferson; 22" x 17" posters of Surrender at Yorktown, Signing of the Constitution, 1st draft of the U S Constitution, Hamilton's Directive following the federal assumption of state debts in 1791; the 56pp book "Slavery in the Founding Era."
