Professor Richard R. John shows how Alexander Hamilton’s tenure as the first Secretary of the Treasury hastened the establishment of a politically independent and militarily powerful state. It was Hamilton who best understood that the United States could survive in a hostile world only if its government were strong and its public credit sound. A professor of history at the University of Illinois at Chicago, Richard R. John specializes in the history of American business, technology, and political economy. Please register.
Location: 2nd floor Conference Room
“Alexander Hamilton: The Man Who Made Modern America” is a national traveling exhibition organized by the New-York Historical Society, the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, and the American Library Association. The traveling exhibition has been made possible in part through a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, dedicated to expanding American understanding of human experience and cultural heritage.
The traveling exhibition is based on the New-York Historical Society’s exhibition commemorating the 200th anniversary of Hamilton’s death as well as the 200th anniversary of the founding of the Society in 1804.
Added by Billie Moffett on December 15, 2008