Alexander Hamilton vs. Aaron Burr. The two men despised each other. The last two times in these pages, I outlined the grinding, seething, and acrimonious disgust that the two political ...

Alexander Hamilton — aide to Gen. George Washington during the Revolutionary War, an author of the Federalist Papers, the nation’s first Secretary of the Treasury and the guy on the $10 bill — was ...

On July 11, 1804, Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr met on the dueling grounds at Weehawken, New Jersey, to fight the final skirmish of a long-lived political and personal battle. When the duel was ...

Quarrels used to be settled with dignity and honor. By David Wesley Williams The historic Morris-Jumel Mansion is the “crown jewel of Sugar Hill” in Manhattan — and a victim of bureaucratic and ...