We all know the story by now. Lin-Manuel Miranda read an Alexander Hamilton biography by Ron Chernow on vacation, and the rest was history. He wrote the smash-hit Broadway musical Hamilton, which has ...

In 2004, historian Ron Chernow wrote a biography that changed the world — or at least musical theater as we know it. Since it inspired Lin-Manuel Miranda to create the smash Broadway musical “Hamilton ...

“Hamilton” the musical is, more or less, a big, giant alternative book report on Ron Chernow’s “Alexander Hamilton” biography. It makes sense, then, that the incredibly popular rap and hip-hop musical ...

This combination photo shows the cover of the biography "Grant," left, and author Ron Chernow. The historian whose Alexander Hamilton biography was the basis for the Broadway musical â "Hamilton" ...

When biographer Amanda Vaill read Ron Chernow’s Alexander Hamilton (2004), her first thought, she said in a recent interview, ...

Douglas Hamilton (right), the fifth-great-grandson of ­Alexander Hamilton, is determined to restore his ancestor's legacy after a novice historian accused the Founding Father of slave ownership. NY ...

A pair of pistols once owned by Alexander Hamilton, the Founding Father killed by a similar gun in his infamous duel with Aaron Burr, sold for $1.15 million, according to Rock Island Auction Company.

A pair of pistols once owned by Alexander Hamilton, the Founding Father who was killed in the most infamous pistol duel in American history, is going up for auction, with bidding estimated to run into ...