I also got really emotional during the Renee Elise Goldsberry/Satisfied chapter, and almost cried on the bus while reading everything surrounding It's Quiet Uptown. If Chanukah falls out on the same weekend, suffice it to say, there are potato latkes on the table alongside the stuffing and green beans. Jefferson and Hamilton debate in a cabinet rap battle, and Hamilton’s career depends on pushing his financial plan through. For her gravestone, Ron chose a line from the letter that Hamilton wrote to Eliza on the night before the duel: “Best of wives and best of women. Miranda wrote Hamilton during a moment when critics and theatermakers were debating whether rap had dramatic potential at all after the failure of Holler If Ya Hear Me on Broadway in 2014, a jukebox musical that used the songs of Tupac Shakur.

I can proudly say that I can spit off every single line of Angelica Schuyler's "Satisfied" and many, many more.This country has been a place where "A place where even orphan immigrants can leave their fingerprints and rise up" since the day we've been founded.

The American Revolution was a defining event in Alexander Hamilton’s life and influenced his vision for the nation. Sometimes the right person tells the right story at the right moment, and through a combination of luck and design, a creative expression gains new force. Finally, I couldn't handle it all, so I figured the best way to extinguish a fire is sometimes to just set another. Alexander Hamilton’s American Revolution tells these stories through nearly forty manuscripts, rare books, artifacts and works of art drawn primarily from the Institute’s collections. Even though I am a white girl from Appalachian Ohio, I felt so connected to the themes this Latino guy in New York City was talking about, and I just started bawling.The show did indeed Blow Us All Away and, after being Helpless for so many months, I was finally Satisfied. Lin-Manuel Miranda's groundbreaking musical Hamilton is as revolutionary as its subject, the poor kid from the Caribbean who fought the British, defended the Constitution, and helped to found the United States. The reaction from the people on the audience that night should have given us a hint of what was to come.