Hamiltons Engagement with Politics By Bailey Kaplan Significance

Hamilton’s Engagement with Politics By Bailey Kaplan

Significance of Hamilton’s release at such an unsettling time

What to Expect…

The election of 2016. “Can we get back to politics, please? ”

2016 1800 ● Thomas Jefferson vs. Aaron Burr ● Hillary Clinton vs. Donald Trump

2016 1800 ● Thomas Jefferson vs. Aaron Burr ● Hillary Clinton vs. Donald Trump One could argue. . .

“If you stand for nothing, Burr, what’ll you fall for? ”

F A K E N E W S

“Immigrants: we get the job done” - Lafayette and Hamilton (Hamilton: An American Musical) “I will build a great, great wall on our southern border, and I will make Mexico pay for that wall. -Donald J. Trump (45 th president of the United States)

Colorblind casting

Colorblind casting is racist

Edu. Ham

Youth swung midterms 1986 2014 2018 21% 16% 31%

““The people, ” whose wisdom Jefferson trusted (sometimes almost too implicitly), either did not believe the Hemings story or thought it trivial when compared with what they felt Jefferson and his administration had to offer them. ”

““The people, ” whose wisdom Jefferson trusted (sometimes almost too implicitly), either did not believe the Hemings story or thought it trivial when compared with what they felt Jefferson and his administration had to offer them. ”

as a hopeful work

To Conclude. . .