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The documentary “Hamilton’s America” follows Lin-Manuel Miranda through his journey of creating a Broadway musical. This documentary was incredibly interesting and impressive to me. I feel like I have been living under a rock for not hearing about this musical until now! I feel like I have learned more about the life of Hamilton in an hour and twenty minutes than I have cumulatively in all of my history classes. Lin-Manuel is an incredibly song writer, every verse in his many songs has a profound amount of meaning. When he decided to write the story of Hamilton he did extensive research. The historical accuracy of the Broadway show is what has caused it to be such a great hit.
The fact that Hamilton lost his parents at a young age and was surrounded in poverty shows that coming to America really could allow a person to leave everything behind to begin a new life. America was see as the land of opportunity and that is exactly what it was for Hamilton. In Matt Everett’s post about Jamestown he states, “Jamestown was the first successful English settlement and model for future colonization.” In this way, Alexander Hamilton and other self-made men in the early Americans knew it was possible to be successful without being born into wealth. It was possible to start from the ground up and still become a successful and wealthy person.
I really enjoyed this documentary for the purpose of this class. It is a nice break from the reading, but it also offered a different learning approach, one that was a little more entertaining. I feel that people are more likely to retain information when it is presented in a way that is interesting and visually appealing. One of the boys who was interviewing the cast of Hamilton said that he was never good at memorizing history, but when it came to watching the show, he learned more than he ever did in his history classes. I completely agree with him that the method in which the show presents itself makes learning much easier that does coming from a textbook.