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Teaching Hamilton: from Broadway to the classroom

ABSTRACT Hamilton, The Musical can be a powerful educational tool. The play provides a cultural touchpoint into a world that existed 250 years ago —a time that is alien to our twenty- first-century sensibilities. The fame of the musical is an opportunity, not to fall back on a popular and idealized narrative, but instead to grapple with its historical complexity. In turn, the musical might help students to imagine Hamilton as a figure in today’s politics and, perhaps, to better understand his role in simultaneously transforming and preserving the political, social, and economic contours of the late eighteenth century. Essentially, we must curate Hamilton for the classroom and address criticisms surrounding its presentation of abolitionism, immigration, upward mobility, and finance. In the following article, I reframe both Hamilton, The Musical and Hamilton, the ordinary man, as timely teachable subjects for a twenty-first century classroom.