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Rolling toward the #DisneyPlus TV version of #Hamilton 
, I'll roll out some of my stuff on the actual Hamilton, how we've processed his legacy, and of course how weird the whole phenomenon's been for me, because let's face it, that's what it's really all about.
, I'll roll out some of my stuff on the actual Hamilton, how we've processed his legacy, and of course how weird the whole phenomenon's been for me, because let's face it, that's what it's really all about.
Starting here, on the Hamilton cult in policy circles, when who could have imagined #Hamilton ! In @BostonReview, 2007 : http://bostonreview.net/hogeland-inventing-alexander-hamilton
! In @BostonReview, 2007 : http://bostonreview.net/hogeland-inventing-alexander-hamilton
Funnily enough it begins on a question of statues!
Also: this anthology has my criticism of the Chernow biography that serves as the main source for the musical. https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/historians_on_hamilton/
Not doing these in chronological order. Here's a strange one with a Shakespeare connection: https://williamhogeland.wordpress.com/2017/02/11/lin-manuel-miranda-and-william-shakespeare/
More #hamilskepticism to come.
I'm quoted in this excellent Harper's piece by @RESullivanJr -- maybe more to the point, so is Gary Nash! https://harpers.org/archive/2016/10/the-hamilton-cult/
Before Disney got into the #HamiltonFilm thing, the musical got Bob Sullivan and me on Page Six! https://williamhogeland.wordpress.com/2016/09/19/thanks-to-robert-sullivans-harpers-essay/
thing, the musical got Bob Sullivan and me on Page Six! https://williamhogeland.wordpress.com/2016/09/19/thanks-to-robert-sullivans-harpers-essay/
That's making it, baby!
More seriously, here's @intersectionist on #Hamilton : Race-Conscious Casting and the Erasure of the Black Past in Lin-Manuel Miranda's Hamilton. https://www.academia.edu/21739155/Race-Conscious_Casting_and_the_Erasure_of_the_Black_Past_in_Lin-Manuel_Mirandas_Hamilton
: Race-Conscious Casting and the Erasure of the Black Past in Lin-Manuel Miranda's Hamilton. https://www.academia.edu/21739155/Race-Conscious_Casting_and_the_Erasure_of_the_Black_Past_in_Lin-Manuel_Mirandas_Hamilton
Ishmael Reed on #Hamilton https://www.counterpunch.org/2016/04/15/hamilton-and-the-negro-whisperers-mirandas-consumer-fraud/
https://www.counterpunch.org/2016/04/15/hamilton-and-the-negro-whisperers-mirandas-consumer-fraud/
Also see @ireedpub's counter-play: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/in-the-haunting-of-lin-manuel-miranda-ishmael-reed-revives-an-old-debate
#HamiltonFilm is still coming. Here's some stuff on Hamilton vs. the Whiskey Rebels, with ref. to AOC , Paine, and the erasure from popular history of a fundamental founding clash. https://williamhogeland.wordpress.com/2019/03/11/alexander-hamilton-vs-the-whiskey-rebels-yet-again/
is still coming. Here's some stuff on Hamilton vs. the Whiskey Rebels, with ref. to AOC , Paine, and the erasure from popular history of a fundamental founding clash. https://williamhogeland.wordpress.com/2019/03/11/alexander-hamilton-vs-the-whiskey-rebels-yet-again/
I'll save my last link in this thread for the big #HamiltonFilm day, but here's my first, very belated response to the show's existence and to certain professionsl historians' criticism of it. There's some criticism of the history profession here too. https://williamhogeland.wordpress.com/2016/04/11/historian-heal-thyself/
day, but here's my first, very belated response to the show's existence and to certain professionsl historians' criticism of it. There's some criticism of the history profession here too. https://williamhogeland.wordpress.com/2016/04/11/historian-heal-thyself/
OK, kids, tonight's the night! In anticipation of #HamiltonFilm , here's my last entry in alt-Hamilton/ alt-"Hamilton" studies. I link the pop-culture explosion of the show to the election of Trump. Ah, 2016. https://williamhogeland.wordpress.com/2019/01/06/bad-history-essays-toward-the-crisis-2008-2018-15-first-thoughts-on-the-trump-crisis-and-the-failure-of-history-and-civics/
, here's my last entry in alt-Hamilton/ alt-"Hamilton" studies. I link the pop-culture explosion of the show to the election of Trump. Ah, 2016. https://williamhogeland.wordpress.com/2019/01/06/bad-history-essays-toward-the-crisis-2008-2018-15-first-thoughts-on-the-trump-crisis-and-the-failure-of-history-and-civics/
