What was the extraordinary partnership between George Washington and Alexander Hamilton? A wealthy Virginia planter and a brash immigrant from the Caribbean helped to win the Revolutionary War and establish a “new order for the ages.” Indeed, no other founding collaboration was as important to achieving victory and nationhood as Washington and Hamilton’s. Working together, they laid the groundwork for the institutions that govern the United States to this day and protected each other from bitter attacks from Jefferson and Madison, who considered their policies a betrayal of the “Spirit of 1776.”

This program will be conducted as a discussion, utilizing primary source documents as the only readings with the Professor facilitating the conversation. Registrants, are highly encouraged to read all the documents in advance and come ready with questions.