For the Scottish father of U.S. Founding Father Alexander Hamilton, see Alexander Hamilton § Early childhood. Not to be confused with James Alexander Hamilton.

A candle stand used by the first president illuminates his extraordinary last days in office Alexis Coe Georgina Schuyler campaigned for Emma Lazarus' "The New Colossus" to be inscribed on a ...

As a delegate to the Constitutional Convention, Alexander ... who did not share Hamilton's enthusiasm for a strong federal government to unite the thirteen states. In these early years after ...

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William Edwin Hamilton (10 May 1834 – 17 March 1902) was an Irish-Canadian journalist and entrepreneur. He was the elder son of the Irish mathematician Sir William Rowan Hamilton and Lady Helen Maria ...

A key committee of the Federal Reserve will meet starting Tuesday to discuss the economy and a potential cut to the central bank’s benchmark rate.

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Early life adversity can have lasting health impacts on individuals, even when circumstances improve later in life. To measure this, scientists use a cumulative adversity index (CAI), which quantifies ...