Alexander Hamilton: An American Tragedy
HTML-код
- Опубликовано: 16 июл 2024
- Alexander Hamilton was a relatively obscure figure among the Founding Fathers until Lin-Manuel Miranda's musical renewed his celebrity.
Hamilton was an orphan who rose from the depths of indigence to the heights of power and intelligentsia through hard work and a couple of fortunate turns. Learn about his rise and fall with Dr. John Foster. 
Кино
I LOVE Dr Foster’s lectures! I know many folks think they’re a bit disjointed or he says”um” a lot but I believe he’s lecturing in real-time and making it personal. If only I had this type of lecture in my schooling I wouldn’t be trying to catch up on history in my later life !
I enjoy a lot of these lectures, thank you for putting them online.
Great subject, horrible speaker. You get right up to the moment before the climax of a point and .... Uh just uh taper off...
Way to many uhs and ums. To the point of distracting me and drawing my attention to were I had no chance of ...
You would be on a good run speaking well and no uhs, then before you could finish suddenly you would quickly make several related things as though what you were about to say wasn't going to be sufficient or you needed to get this added information in or the gist couldn't be understood.
If I had to pick one to focus on fixing it would be the brain farts. Removing the uhs and ums would do wonders to improve your public speaking. I'm not a professional by any means but please please please work on that. So distracting! I would walk out if I was a student not out of disrespect but because I literally would be so flustered and frustrated trying to listen to you that I couldn't concentrate and it would be a sure fail if I tried to suffer through it.
That said the subject and substance of this is awesome. Good luck.
Great lecture, I'm definitely gonna check out and sub. You do a very good job of keeping on task, keeping it lively and interesting, and you put out great information! Thanks
I’m from Mentor too😱 Alexander Hamilton and Washington were the most important founders.
I am currently reading Ron Chernow's book.
Historian:
BURR vs HAMILTON: (The Duel). Normally, in duels, you walk off ten steps, (which they did), present as low an outline as possible to your opponent, wait for a last-minute apology/concession, then fire at will (flag drop). This evidently went down. The two main eye-witness accounts vary because they were offered later by the two "Seconds" of Burr and Hamilton. It's generally acknowledged that Hamilton fired first - or at least initiated the simultaneous shots. Hamilton's shot missed Burr, hitting a tree. Hamiltonians would have us believe that it was a "deliberate" miss-shot fired into the air. If this were true, then why did Hamilton put his glasses on before firing his pistol? Burr's shot hit Hamilton's wrist first then ricocheted into his right-side abdomen piercing his liver. Hamilton's wrist could not have been raised in the air with this result. Dueling was against the law at this time, punishable by death in New York, so the two duelists carried out their archaic settlement on the shores of New Jersey. Interestingly, during this illegal act, Hamilton's Second was District Court "Judge" Nathaniel Pendleton. Hamilton provided the pistols, the same ones where his son lost his own life in a duel three years earlier. Hamilton was not "murdered." He was just a bad shot - even with his glasses on.
Love this title!! not just because of the musical, I did buy the book from Ron Chernow, AH tributes everything he had to raise the system we adopted now, He is worth much more credit!!
I also read that biography and heard the audio book. Really worth it.
Hamilton was thinking with his other head
Such a great lecture!
I like this background commentary! I wonder if someone here can tell whether Howard Fast's screenplay in that movie, "The Crossing, is accurate about Alexander Hamilton being the executioner of Hessians, with a sword, in a guard shack in the day-after -Christmas march on Trenton in 1776. I haven't found it elsewhere. Did it happen? What's a good place to find this information?
The book brought me here, hell of a
guy he was .
im very suprised not alot of people has seen this?
Leaving out the "kinda", "sort of", "you know", "um" would make it a lot easier to listen. Like, you know? Wth does "Hamilton kind of speaking in public" mean??
After counseling his son on fighting a duel, in which he was killed, Alexander Hamilton was in a tight spot when Aaron Burr challenged him to a duel.
What happened at the 49 minute mark? There is a skip in the lecture? What it accidental or did he say something someone didn't like?
Hi Earl, I'm the guy who edits this and all the other videos for the library. I see the skips you're talking about and honestly can't remember why I trimmed there.
In my decade of editing videos for MPL, I've never trimmed Dr. Foster for content. However, I'll sometimes edit videos for clarity or coherence. (As the years go on, I've become more prone to clip his "ummms" and things of that nature.)
It's possible that he took a long pause to collect his thoughts, and I clipped the silence. But I don't remember for sure.
@@MentorPublicLib Thank you so much for the video and even more so for the reply. As an historian who has done a fair amount of lecturing myself I have become very cynical regarding the unbelievable drive to censor, "reimagine", edit history so as not to be "offensive". Presentism is destroying the field. Thus it is absolutely delightful to know that your edits have nothing to do with any of that nonsense!!!
Keep up the great work, it is much needed and appreciated!
Earl
@@earlschandelmeier751 Love this reply! It is great to know that there is other people that think like that out there
It seems that if Hamilton just kept his mouth shut or at least reached some type of an agreement with Burr, some of the financial situations and other developments affected by Hamilton could have changed at least minorly the course of American (USA) Government. Thanks.
i wish this guy was my history teacher
There's nothing tragic about Tyrants meeting this end
You can say that again
1:01:17
Wasn’t he the big government guy?
Was Hamilton Puerto Rican?
No, he was born on the island of Nevis in the West Indies. But Hamilton's humble origins and his immigration to the mainland resonated with Lin-Manuel Miranda. (Miranda said Hamilton's journey reminded him of his father's.)
A lot of uhm awhs and is he telling us for real or sort of telling is
Chernow actually mentions there’s credence that they could have a romantic connection- he mentions the writing conventions of the day but you erroneously portray his mentioning that as a dismissal of the possible connection which he does not do. Why?
Hammi wants a Sammi
There it is again. 1757, not 1557
Aaron Burr gets a bad rap
dude came into the lecture with a cold, I wonder how many people got sick after this event🤔
Why does he choose to call them republicans instead of jeffersonians/ democratic-republic to not conflict it with modern Republican Party
1555 - 1557, Proofreading is important!
Uh
Yeah, he says that alot.
The title of this lecture should be "How to Say "Uh" and "Um" Fifty Thousand Times In A Little Over An Hour". So distracting I couldn't pay attention to what the speaker was trying to say.
It does make him seem very unprepared
1555 or 1557 Proof reading is important!
Hamilton wasnt alive in 1555
@@party_dude he means 1755 or 1757
You might want to rehearse your presentation a few times. Just saying-it borders on incoherent at times.
False!
Get feedback from 5 impartial listeners if you don’t agree with me. It’s really quite painful to listen to it.
Uh...um.... x 1,000,000
“UHHHHH…”
McDonald's Residents.
very good lecture. but is it bothering anyone else how much he's coughing and sneezing????
That's my fault. I could have done a better job trimming those.
@@MentorPublicLib it’s ok. It’s the 2020 in me. Or else I wouldn’t of noticed it
@@adamjonkie5601 "It's the 2020 in me" is such a bulletproof explanation for... pretty much anything.
this was in the days before Corona Virus, when we were allowed to just have a cold or flu
@@nix1059 Right? Remember those halcyon days when you could have a sniffle and not feel like a threat to humanity.
Ugh