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Hamilton, Alexander (1757-1804) to Elizabeth Schuyler. High-resolution images are available to schools and libraries via subscription to American History, 1493-1943. Check to see if your school or library already has a subscription. Or click here for more information.
Historians can only wonder how Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton reacted to her husband’s infidelity. Her letters on the matter do not survive. Compare Eliza’s silence with the “silencing” of Sally Hemings in Clarence Walker, Mongrel Nation: The America Begotten by Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson.
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The collection, consisting of approximately 12,000 items dating from 1708 to 1917, documents Hamilton's impoverished Caribbean boyhood (scantily); events in the lives of his family and that of his wife, Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton; his experience as a Revolutionary War officer and aide-de-camp to General George Washington; his terms as a New ...
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This is a guest post by Tilar J. Mazzeo, author of a forthcoming biography on Eliza Hamilton, and Graham Windham.
By now everyone knows that Eliza Hamilton, the wife of Alexander Hamilton, burned her husband's love letters before she diedand November 9th will be the 162nd anniversary of her death on that day in 1854 at the age of 97. But if you're an astute historian, you might notice that Alexander Hamilton was killed in that famous duel way back in 1804. Eli...
Eliza was born Elizabeth Schuyler in 1757, the daughter of an important landowner and Revolutionary War general. During her girlhood in upstate New York, she and her sisters lived in a world that might be best described as a cross between every Jane Austen novel that you've ever read and James Fenimore Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans. The Schuyle...
One of those young officers was Alexander Hamilton, who came riding in on horseback one day to deliver a message to her father. When they met again the next time, at an officer's ball during the American Revolution, they were smitten and, soon, married. While they lived at times in upstate New York, in Philadelphia, and in army camps, their most im...
The current exhibition at The New York Public Library, Alexander Hamilton: Striver, Statesman, Scoundrel (on view until December 31 in the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building) tells that story of Alexander Hamilton's rise and his genius, as well his peccadillos and his duel with Aaron Burr, and puts on display as well more than two dozen rare items from...
After Alexander's death the next year, Eliza was left impoverished, and her youngest child was only two-years old. But she was ultimately able to save The Grange (open to the public today as a New York State museum, 414 W. 141st Street) from a public auction and remained the steward of the Hamilton family home. Although Eliza's story often ends the...
Aug 22, 2022 · The main research question which this psychobiography responds to is: “How did Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton cope with life’s challenges and tragedies through the lenses of sense of coherence and faith development theory?”
Nov 29, 2019 · Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton was often overlooked because of the presence of her husband, Alexander Hamilton. She was born in 1757 to a rich, social family with a father that was a Revolutionary War Major General.
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