Hamilton!

I stayed up way past my bedtime last night.

A good friend invited me to see Hamilton and I wasn’t about to throw away my shot (see what I did there?). It was incredible and we had a blast. My face still hurts from smiling.

As a tribute to the play, I’m sharing a few random Hamilton doodles (of varying importance in no particular order). Many (but not all) of these doodles were inspired by Dr. Lindsay Chervinsky’s The Cabinet: George Washington and the Creation of an American Institution. It’s a great resource if you’re planning to see Hamilton (and/or maybe want to sort out what’s true from eh… not so much).

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These guys fought so damned much. And not just against the British.

This handy chart helps me keep some of their squabbles straight. SPOILER ALERT! Maybe zip past this if you don’t know how Hamilton ends (the play or the man).

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“Daily pitted in the cabinet like two cocks.”

That’s how Thomas Jefferson remembered his time working with Hamilton. How did this not make it into my list of Things That Sound Dirty, But Aren’t? An obvious oversight, but it still doesn’t bump The Cabinet back into the #1 position.

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Hamilton’s enemies all got together to “look at flora and fauna”, which loosely translates to “meet secretly about Hamilton”

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Don’t let this doodle fool you.

Having conversations with oneself wasn’t just something Hamilton did. Madison wrote speeches, the reactions to the speeches, then the thank yous for the reactions. The editor of Madison’s papers marveled that “Madison was in a dialogue with himself.”

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“One cannot make an omelet without breaking eggs.”

[eyeroll] Full disclosure: the more I learn about Thomas Jefferson, the less I like him.

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Want more?

Click into any of these for a bit more info about the rest of the cast. (And John Adams.)

This is a work in progress — I’m gradually adding more people to my site and slowly filling in doodles and extra trivia. As they say in the play “tomorrow they’ll be more of us.”