The Musical Hamilton

 The musical "Hamilton" is in town. Great entertainment but terrible history according to an increasing number of historians: largely historical fantasy.

The musical touts Hamilton as an immigrant. But Hamilton was a British Citizen as were all of the secessionist founders, coming to New York from the British slave colony of Nevis. Not my definition of an immigrant.

The musical touts a nation of immigrants popular during the Obama celebrating our mythical origins as a country. The musical is a product of the hopeful transracial Obama years which are now clearly shown as illusory.

To the extent that the show promotes goody goody immigration and tries to paint Hamilton as 21st Century political liberal, its politics and history are fraudulent. Hamilton was an arch-conservative. Today he would be labeled as a White Nationalist though secular. He was not exactly anti-immigrant, but he wanted to keep the fledgling nation white and British.

I could go on and on based on my extensive reading about Hamilton, and I have read all of the major biographies and histories of his era. On an historical basis, the musical (and I hasten to say I have not seen it) is surely great entertainment with obvious current political overtones, but bad history.