My review of the book Hamilton’s Choice by Jack Casey – History Comes Alive #AaronBurr #AlexanderHamilton #bookreview #duel #ElizaSchuylerHamilton #historicalfiction #newEnglandsecession #PhilipHamilton #secession

https://thoughtsfromthemountaintop.com/2023/08/10/book-review-hamiltons-choice-by-jack-casey-history-comes-alive/

I often write about the #LocalHistory of #AlbanyNY – I've been focused on telling the stories of a series of #markers put up during the city's charter #bicentennial.
The latest entry tells some stories of one of #Albany's shortest streets, Norton Street, where #AaronBurr once practiced law.

https://hoxsie.org/2023/07/10/albany-bicentennial-tablet-no-39-norton-street/

#history #HistoricalMarker #HistoricalMarkers #histodons

Today in Labor History February 19, 1807: The authorities arrested former Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr for treason. They alleged that he was behind a plot to create an independent country in the southwest of the U.S., but had to acquit him for lack of evidence. Some believed he intended to take Texas or all of Mexico, but accounts vary as to how many supporters he had (anywhere from 40 to 7,000). In 1808, he traveled to England and attempted to garner support for a revolution in Mexico. The Brits kicked him out of the country. Prior to all this, while still vice president he had killed Alexander Hamilton in an illegal duel. He was never tried and all charges against him were dropped. Gore Vidal wrote an historical novel, “Burr,” written in the form of a memoir by Burr. The novel undoes the traditional hagiographies of America’s founding fathers, portraying them as the greedy, self-serving and often times incompetent men they really were. It was the first in his Narratives of Empire series.

#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #AaronBurr #Revolution #mexico #hamilton #duel #GoreVidal #memoir #hisfic #HistoricalFiction @bookstadon

Did you know that #AaronBurr had two children with an #Indian woman born in Calcutta who worked as a servant in the household of his second wife?
In 2018, Louisa and John were acknowledged by the Aaron Burr Assoc as the children of Burr after a descendant of John, provided both documentary evidence and results of a DNA test to confirm a familial link between descendants of Burr and descendants of John Pierre.
https://wapo.st/3ZYZrcW
#AmericanHistory
#BlackHistoryMatters
#FoundingFathers

So a couple of things. I did not know until a few minutes ago that in 2017 #WayneBrady was #AaronBurr in the #Chicago production of #Hamilton.