🎶Who tells their story?🎶

⭐ Today’s the day! Who else is streaming #Hamilfilm ?

🍿🍿🍿 We’ll bring the popcorn + some #Hamilton history

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Bitter Rivals: After decades of disagreements, Alexander #Hamilton & Aaron Burr faced off in a fight to the death.

📽️ Watch the dramatization of the original letters exchanged between Burr & Hamilton just months before their duel.

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🎶Elizzzaaa!🎶

In 1806, Elizabeth #Hamilton was one of the founders of the Orphan Asylum Society of the City of New York. At the time, there were no options for desperate children besides brutal workhouses. https://bit.ly/2NO81Y3 
🎶Everyone give it up for America's favorite fighting Frenchman: LAFAYETTE!🎶

#DYK The Marquis de Lafayette was made an honorary member of the New-York Historical Society in 1824? https://bit.ly/3eWgdSj  #Hamilfilm
🎶And there's a million things I haven't done.
But just you wait, just you, wait.🎶

🗞️ #DYK #Hamilton ’s history with tabloids?

Well, it’s not quite what you're thinking. He founded the oldest newspaper in NY still in circulation—the @nypost!

📽️ https://bit.ly/3dVCmyP 
🎶What is a legacy?🎶

Manhattan has many #Hamilton -named places but #DYK there was once a Hamilton St on the LES? http://ow.ly/Bhye30223op 
🎶Sit down, John...🎶

If #Hamilton had had Twitter, his posts would be tagged with #NeverJohnAdams.

http://ow.ly/wB68302mQWj 
🎶Pardon me. Are you Aaron Burr, sir? 🎶

Which portrait of himself did Aaron Burr call “the best likeness ever painted of me since 1809”?

Click to see the portrait—the last ever painted of Aaron Burr: https://bit.ly/31FVY7E  #Hamilfilm
🎶I imagine death so much it feels more like a memory.🎶

This gold mourning ring was given to a friend of Hamilton's by his wife in 1805. It contains a braided lock of Alexander #Hamilton 's hair. https://bit.ly/2NT4qba 
🎶I am not throwing away my shot!🎶

How did we restore an Alexander #Hamilton pamphlet so it was stable enough to travel to other museums?

Read more from the lab: https://bit.ly/3dFxvSn 
🎶I am inimitable, I am an original.🎶

Like #Hamilton ’s hair preserved after the famous duel, this lock of #AaronBurr’s hair was cut from the head of the notorious public figure on the day he died, September 14, 1836.
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