Read on Twitter
Rolling toward the #DisneyPlus TV version of #Hamilton 
https://abs.twimg.com/hashflags... draggable="false" alt=""> , I& #39;ll roll out some of my stuff on the actual Hamilton, how we& #39;ve processed his legacy, and of course how weird the whole phenomenon& #39;s been for me, because let& #39;s face it, that& #39;s what it& #39;s really all about.
Starting here, on the Hamilton cult in policy circles, when who could have imagined #Hamilton https://abs.twimg.com/hashflags... draggable="false" alt=""> ! In @BostonReview, 2007 : http://bostonreview.net/hogeland-inventing-alexander-hamilton">https://bostonreview.net/hogeland-...
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/">https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/historian...
Not doing these in chronological order. Here& #39;s a strange one with a Shakespeare connection: https://williamhogeland.wordpress.com/2017/02/11/lin-manuel-miranda-and-william-shakespeare/">https://williamhogeland.wordpress.com/2017/02/1...
More #hamilskepticism to come.
I& #39;m quoted in this excellent Harper& #39;s piece by @RESullivanJr -- maybe more to the point, so is Gary Nash! https://harpers.org/archive/2016/10/the-hamilton-cult/">https://harpers.org/archive/2...
Before Disney got into the #HamiltonFilm https://abs.twimg.com/hashflags... draggable="false" alt=""> thing, the musical got Bob Sullivan and me on Page Six! https://williamhogeland.wordpress.com/2016/09/19/thanks-to-robert-sullivans-harpers-essay/">https://williamhogeland.wordpress.com/2016/09/1...
That& #39;s making it, baby!
More seriously, here& #39;s @intersectionist on #Hamilton https://abs.twimg.com/hashflags... draggable="false" alt=""> : Race-Conscious Casting and the Erasure of the Black Past in Lin-Manuel Miranda& #39;s Hamilton. https://www.academia.edu/21739155/Race-Conscious_Casting_and_the_Erasure_of_the_Black_Past_in_Lin-Manuel_Mirandas_Hamilton">https://www.academia.edu/21739155/...
Ishmael Reed on #Hamilton https://abs.twimg.com/hashflags... draggable="false" alt=""> https://www.counterpunch.org/2016/04/15/hamilton-and-the-negro-whisperers-mirandas-consumer-fraud/">https://www.counterpunch.org/2016/04/1...
Also see @ireedpub& #39;s counter-play: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/in-the-haunting-of-lin-manuel-miranda-ishmael-reed-revives-an-old-debate">https://www.newyorker.com/culture/c...
#HamiltonFilm https://abs.twimg.com/hashflags... draggable="false" alt=""> is still coming. Here& #39;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/">https://williamhogeland.wordpress.com/2019/03/1...
I& #39;ll save my last link in this thread for the big #HamiltonFilm https://abs.twimg.com/hashflags... draggable="false" alt=""> day, but here& #39;s my first, very belated response to the show& #39;s existence and to certain professionsl historians& #39; criticism of it. There& #39;s some criticism of the history profession here too. https://williamhogeland.wordpress.com/2016/04/11/historian-heal-thyself/">https://williamhogeland.wordpress.com/2016/04/1...
OK, kids, tonight& #39;s the night! In anticipation of #HamiltonFilm https://abs.twimg.com/hashflags... draggable="false" alt=""> , here& #39;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/">https://williamhogeland.wordpress.com/2019/01/0...
