Historians on Hamilton : how a blockbuster musical is restaging America's past

Romano, Renee Christine, (editor.). Potter, Claire Bond, 1958- (editor.).

Summary: Historians on ""Hamilton"" brings together a diverse collection of top scholars to explain the Hamilton phenomenon and explore what it might mean for our understanding of America's history. In short, lively essays, these experts assess what the musical got right, what it got wrong, and why it matters.

Record details

ISBN: 0813590337
ISBN: 9780813590332
ISBN: 0813590310
ISBN: 9780813590318
Physical Description: 1 online resource (399 pages) : illustrations (some color)
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Publisher: New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2018]
Copyright: ©2018

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Introduction: History Is Happening in Manhattan / Renee C. Romano and Claire Bond Potter -- Act I: The Script. From Ron Chernow's Alexander Hamilton to Hamilton: An American Musical / William Hogeland -- "Can We Get Back to Politics? Please": Hamilton's Missing Politics in Hamilton / Joanne B. Freeman -- Race-Conscious Casting and the Erasure of the Black Past in Hamilton / Lyra D. Monteiro -- The Greatest City in the World?: Slavery in New York in the Age of Hamilton / Leslie M. Harris -- "Remember ... I'm Your Man": Masculinity, Marriage, and Gender in Hamilton / Catherine Allgor -- Act II: The Stage. "The Ten-Dollar Founding Father": Hamilton, Money, and Federal Power / Michael O'Malley -- Hamilton as Founders Chic: A Neo-Federalist, Antislavery Usable Past? / David Waldstreicher and Jeffrey L. Pasley -- Hamilton and the American Revolution on Stage and Screen / Andrew M. Shockett -- From The Black Crook to Hamilton: A Brief History of Hot Tickets on Broadway / Elizabeth L. Wollman -- Looking at Hamilton from Inside the Broadway Bubble / Brian Eugenio Herrera -- Act III: The Audience. Mind the Gap: Teaching Hamilton / Jim Cullen -- Reckoning with America's Racial Past, Present, and Future in Hamilton / Patricia Herrera -- Who Tells Your Story?: Hamilton as a People's History / Joseph M. Adelman -- Hamilton: A New American Civic Myth / Renee C. Romano -- "Safe in the Nation We've Made?": Staging Hamilton on Social Media / Claire Bond Potter.
Restrictions on Access Note:	NLC staff and students only.
Source of Description Note:	Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed May 15, 2018).