Alexander Hamilton (1755-1804)

Champlain College’s Miller Information Commons is one of 40 libraries nationwide -- and the only site in northern New England -- selected to host an exhibition called “Alexander Hamilton: The Man Who Made Modern America.” The panel exhibit examines Hamilton's central role during the Revolutionary War and our country’s Founding period in creating the economic, constitutional, social, journalistic, political and foreign policy templates for modern America. The exhibit acquaints visitors with a statesman and visionary whose life inspired discussion and controversy and shaped the America we live in 200 years after his death.

This national traveling exhibition is organized by the New-York Historical Society, the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History and the American Library Association. The exhibition has been made possible in part through a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, dedicated to expanding American understanding of human experience and cultural heritage. Champlain College’s showing of the exhibit is supported in part by a generous gift from Trustee Emeritus Dr. John W. Heisse, Jr.

The College will augment the exhibit with special programming for teachers and families, and several educational lectures and panel discussions featuring Willard Sterne Randall and other local experts. The historical scholar in residence at Champlain College, Randall is a Pulitzer Prize-nominated biographer whose most recent book was “Alexander Hamilton: A Life.”