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 ...

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 ...

Aaron Burr has been trapped in amber as an American icon for almost 200 years: the face of villainy in the early republic, Hamilton’s killer, a master of political intrigue who plunged his country ...