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The musical phenomenon Hamilton follows the life of one ambitious immigrant who helps win a revolution and shape early American politics, all while earnestly sticking to noble ideals. 

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Hamilton&nbsp;fever has taken over the internet, and so have the memes. When <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/lin-manuel-miranda-hamilton-play-best-tweets-funny-twitter/amaliahalpin" target="_blank">Lin-Manuel Miranda&#39;s</a> hit Broadway <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/best-songs-in-hamilton/ranker-music" target="_blank">musical</a> was finally released to the public on Disney+, fans of the show couldn&#39;t&nbsp;get enough - and we&#39;d be lying if we said we haven&#39;t had it on repeat. (What can we say, we&#39;re helpless) These are the very best Hamilton memes on the internet.&nbsp;

Interesting

Before 2015, it was common to hear that <a href="/list/a-list-of-famous-alexander-hamilton-quotes/reference">Alexander Hamilton</a> was, by far, the most undervalued of all the American <a href="/list/american-founding-father-conspiracies/aaron-edwards">Founding Fathers</a>. But with the explosive popularity of the Broadway <a href="/list/alexander-hamilton-facts-not-in-hamilton-musical/stephanroget" target="_blank">musical Hamilton</a>, that statement is no longer accurate. Hamilton fever swept America, and he&nbsp;became one of the most popular Founding Fathers, as fans of the musical flocked to historic sites and bought&nbsp;out shelves of books associated with him.

Hamilton was not just important in the founding of America. He was also a fascinating historical figure and tireless public servant. Though it is easy to sing Hamilton&#39;s praises today, it is also worth noting that he was highly controversial and divisive in his own time: Hamilton was a man who inspired admiration and respect <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/details-of-hamilton-reynolds-affair/megan-summers" target="_blank">just as fiercely as he inspired outrage</a> and offense.

Indeed, a portrait can be drawn of Hamilton as a brash and renegade Founding Father who was passionate about his ideals and vision for what the new American nation could become. These badass Alexander Hamilton facts reveal a brilliant, singular man in an age of great men.

Though never elected as US president, Hamilton&#39;s shadow looms large. Considering all the badass things Alexander Hamilton did in his relatively short lifetime, his legacy deserves to be remembered.

Who doesn&#39;t love a good villain? Broadway sensation&nbsp;Hamilton&nbsp;has one of the best in Aaron Burr, and now that the musical has made its way to Disney+, more and more fans finding out just how great the character of Aaron Burr is.

With a hat tip to the Reddit forum <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/hamiltonmemes/" target="_blank">r/HamiltonMemes</a>, enjoy these Aaron Burr memes that put you in the room where it happens.

Twitter

Lin Manuel Miranda isn&#39;t just a musical genius, he&#39;s also a Twitter genius.&nbsp;

A roundup of fascinating things&nbsp;shared about the Broadway musical Hamilton,&nbsp;courtesy of <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/" target="_blank">r/todayilearned</a>.

Musicals / Plays

For those of us who never made it to New York and had to subsist on the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/best-hamilton-clapbacks/alby-thompson" target="_blank">Hamilton</a> cast recording, it&#39;s a real treat to watch the original cast perform the show on Disney+.&nbsp;While every castmember is undeniably talented, what kind of theatre fans would we be if we didn&#39;t nitpick who was the MOST talented?

Vote up the cast members who you think are the MVP&#39;s of the show.&nbsp;

Lin-Manuel Miranda&#39;s &#39;Hamilton&#39; is a cultural phenomenom. Its fervent fan base can&#39;t get enough of sharing their favorite songs, moments, and lines from the Tony Award-winning musical. But you only really know you&#39;re a hit when they&#39;re making so many memes about you that there&#39;s an entire subreddit dedicated to those memes. And thus, <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/hamiltonmemes" target="_blank">r/hamiltonmemes </a>was born.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Premiering on Broadway in 2015 to widespread acclaim, Lin-Manuel Miranda&#39;s&nbsp;Hamilton&nbsp;resonated with theatergoers in a way their elementary school history classes never could. With <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/best-songs-in-hamilton/ranker-music" target="_blank">catchy tunes</a>, <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/hamilton-cast-mvp/mrennie" target="_blank">electric performances</a>, and casting that reflects the USA&#39;s unique diversity, Hamilton continues to be a major cultural touchstone. It&#39;s also got a caustic wit that manifests in several highly-entertaining comebacks.

Whether it&#39;s Hamilton insulting Aaron Burr, Burr trading barbs with the young Revolutionaries, or Thomas Jefferson throwing shade every which way,&nbsp;Hamilton&nbsp;features some of the best clapbacks in musical theater. (Of course, real theater geeks know that two of the musical&#39;s best clapbacks - Hamilton insulting Adams, and Angelica offering a sardonic &quot;congratulations&quot; to Hamilton - were cut from the final version, but there are still a ton of epic putdowns to savor.)

Below are a few of the choicest selections, so upvote the ones that truly &quot;burn.&quot;

Historical Figures

The&nbsp;<a href="/list/hamilton-cast-vs-real-people/klindell" target="_blank">Hamilton musical</a>&nbsp;may have set the&nbsp;theater&nbsp;world alight and reignited modern interest in the life stories of the Founding Fathers, but questions about Hamilton&rsquo;s historical accuracy have lingered since it first hit the stage. In short, it&rsquo;s as historically accurate as any other musical ever produced, and pays a lot more attention to detail than most - but that doesn&rsquo;t mean Lin-Manuel Miranda didn&rsquo;t leave a boatload of pertinent <a class="edS-cl" href="https://www.ranker.com/list/badass-alexander-hamilton-facts/setareh-janda?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">Alexander Hamilton facts</a> on the cutting room floor and out of the script.

Some critics claim that Hamilton whitewashes history and simplifies what should be a complicated and controversial legacy, and those arguments are not without merit. It&rsquo;s also true, however, that Miranda left out some of the most interesting events and occurrences from Alexander Hamilton&rsquo;s life, and that&rsquo;s a little more inexplicable.&nbsp;

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Work! Work! Angelicaaa! Work! Work! Elizaaa! AND PEGGY!&nbsp;

US History

The affair between Alexander Hamilton and Maria Reynolds plays a major role in the second act of&nbsp;Lin-Manuel Miranda&#39;s musical&nbsp;Hamilton, but how historically accurate is this depiction of America&#39;s first big sex scandal? Quite accurate, it turns out - even if some key details are excluded from Miranda&#39;s dramatic retelling of the incident.

At the height of his political career in 1797, Hamilton published <a href="https://www.vox.com/2015/12/25/10662620/reynolds-pamphlet-hamilton" target="_blank">a wordy confession</a> detailing the extramarital affair he carried on with the also-married Maria Reynolds between 1791 and 1792. Now known as the &quot;Reynolds Pamphlet,&quot; the document impacted Hamilton&#39;s desire to hold higher positions within the United States government, and tainted his reputation among his peers.

The Hamilton/Reynolds affair is marked by blackmail, secret liaisons, arrests, and constant threats waved at political rivals. It also foreshadows Hamilton&#39;s premature demise in 1804, when he lost&nbsp;a good ol&#39; fashioned duel to&nbsp;fellow Founding Father Aaron Burr.

Feuds

The first—and perhaps the most important—political rivalry&nbsp;in U.S. history was between <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/badass-alexander-hamilton-facts/setareh-janda" target="_blank">Alexander Hamilton</a> and <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/reasons-thomas-jefferson-was-awful/stephanroget" target="_blank">Thomas Jefferson</a>. The two Founding Fathers clashed over political differences, each trying to sway President George Washington to his side. But there’s more to the Hamilton and Jefferson feud than you thought.Why did Thomas Jefferson hate Alexander Hamilton? He called Hamilton a corrupt monarchist, a traitor to the country—and their beef went far beyond political differences. In the rivalry between Jefferson and Hamilton, both men would destroy their own reputations in order to attack&nbsp;each other.The rivalry between Hamilton and Jefferson started out as a political disagreement, but it soon became deeply&nbsp;personal. And their fight would turn two shocking affairs into the <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/scandals-during-elections-in-us-history/michael-anderson" target="_blank">biggest scandals</a> of early American history.

Broadway

The Phantom of the Opera

List of the best musicals to ever run on stage, whether on Broadway, the West End, or in smaller fringe theaters around the world. The greatest musicals combine music, dancing, amazing stories, and top casts to take the viewer out of a theatre and into a world they never imagined. The best Broadway musicals are a cross-section of classic musicals like Les Miserables (now an <a>Oscar winning</a> movie) and Cats as well as new favorites like The Book of Mormon and Wicked. Their casts feature some of the <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/best-broadway-stars/mollie">best stars on Broadway</a> from throughout the years, and they are all worthy of more than one viewing. The best thing about musical theater, of course, is that it's never the same show twice.What are the top Broadway musicals? What are the best musical theater shows? Which shows are the greatest musicals ever to be on stage? That's for all you musical theater fans to decide! Vote on your favorite musicals and if your favorite Broadway musical show isn't on the list, add it so others can discover a best new Broadway musical to see.

Hamilton&nbsp;is one of the most beloved, successful Broadway productions of all time. The music is catchy, the story is riveting, and the performances are&nbsp;stellar, but it goes beyond that. It&#39;s the little things Lin-Manuel Miranda has done to make it one of the most complex musicals ever staged - like how one character in the ensemble is the key to understanding the whole show.

Songs

It&#39;s time to&nbsp;rank the best songs from&nbsp;Hamilton.&nbsp;Adapted from Ron Chernow&#39;s&nbsp;biography on Alexander Hamilton,&nbsp;the 2015 musical by Lin-Manuel Miranda&nbsp;won 11 Tony Awards, including Best Musical, and a Grammy for Best Mucial Theater Album.&nbsp;While you might know all the lyrics to the most popular tracks, have you listened to the <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/best-hamilton-clapbacks/alby-thompson" target="_blank">Hamilton</a> cut songs, like &quot;Congratulations?&quot;

What are your favorite&nbsp;Hamilton&nbsp;songs to sing along to? From &quot;Helpless&quot; to &quot;Wait for It,&quot; ranking all&nbsp;Hamilton&nbsp;songs might be difficult.&nbsp;Other good&nbsp;Hamilton&nbsp;songs&nbsp;from the musical soundtrack include &quot;Satisfied&quot; and &quot;You&#39;ll Be Back.&quot;

Vote up the best songs in&nbsp;Hamilton. Be sure to also vote for any&nbsp;underrated&nbsp;Hamilton&nbsp;songs that deserve to be ranked higher on the list.

Politics

Benjamin Rush

Hey, ladies and gentlemen. Are you poking around the Internet looking for some foxy new faces to ogle? Well, here is a list of the Founding Fathers of the United States of America, ranked by hotness. Unlike many of the <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/hottest-us-presidents/carly-kiel">US Presidents</a>, every single guy on this list was dead by the time photography rolled around. Do you know what that means? You guessed it: Every image on this list is based on an oil painting. Which Founding Father looked most physically attractive when immortalized on canvas (or, eventually, some form of currency)?This isn't a list of all U.S.&nbsp;<a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/founding-fathers-facts/mel-judson">founding fathers</a> - just the sexy ones. What even is a Founding Father, anyway? Well, the hot dudes on this list signed either one or two or all of these documents: the Declaration of Independence (1776 duh), the Articles of Confederation (1777), and/or the freaking Constitution (1787). There are 50 of those fellows pictured below. If you ask an official American historian's opinion, he might say that there are seven main Founding Fathers. They are John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and George Washington. Don't worry; they are all listed here, too, and you vote on one of them as Hot or Not as you please. But if you are like, &quot;Well, I don't see Nathaniel Scudder on this list,&quot; I hate to tell you, but he was not even close to one of the Top 50. But the rest of your ATFFFs (All-Time Favorite Founding Fathers) are here, including caddish Thomas Heyward, ladies' man Francis Lightfoot Lee, and heartbreaker Elbridge Gerry.What do you think the American Founding Fathers were like IRL? A lot were lawyers, some were speculators (what), and many owned and managed slaves (yikes!). But the real question is whether they were too busy being revolutionaries and sticking it to King George to really give their wives the time of day. (Only four of the delegates to the 1787 Constitutional Convention remained lifelong bachelors, btw). After all, what good is a strong jawline and shapely calves built for breeches if you are never even at home? What are we even talking about anymore? Enjoy this gallery of hot guys from the 1770s and 1780s, and vote up the ones who give you the tingles.

If being American were a sport, Thomas Jefferson would be in the running for all-time MVP. Jefferson was one of the <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/best-founding-fathers/amylindorff">best&nbsp;Founding Fathers</a>, the primary author of the Declaration, a celebrated President, and the most popular character in Hamilton. America was founded on Jefferson-stated principals, especially those regarding “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness,” along with all men being “created equal.”Unfortunately, Jefferson himself really failed to live up to those lofty values. The great things that Jefferson did are&nbsp;eclipsed by the awful things he did. Jefferson’s hypocrisy is fairly well-known amongst Americans, but his status as a member of the Mount Rushmore Club has resulted in some of his outright terribleness being edited out of history.Thomas Jefferson had many admirable qualities&nbsp;and contributed greatly to the creation of the United States of America. He deserves his status as a good President, unlike certain other individuals&nbsp;such as <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/crazy-andrew-jackson-facts/thaneeconomou">Andrew Jackson</a>. However, as you examine the stories of his life below, you'll be surprised to find how Jefferson lacks honor and is a bit of a nasty person.&nbsp;

America

Thanks to the Broadway phenomenon Hamilton, a lot more people know the ins-and-outs of the Aaron Burr biography. But is that portrayal of Burr's life even accurate? Who was Aaron Burr, really?&nbsp;Burr is primarily known for his deadly duel with Alexander Hamilton. Yeah, that was a pretty depressing moment in American history: the sitting vice president straight-up murdering a man. But that's just scratching the surface of Burr's bummer of a story. There's a lot to this man beyond the Aaron Burr duel, as the history buffs among you surely know. Be forewarned: you might need a drink after reading some of <a class="edS-cl" href="https://www.ranker.com/list/most-depressing-movies-of-all-time/ranker-film?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">the most depressing</a> and, in some cases, totally bizarre facts about Burr. &nbsp;&nbsp;

History

&quot;Just you wait...&quot; Theater fans&nbsp;have long been waiting for&nbsp;the film version of the original Broadway&nbsp;Hamilton cast performing Lin-Manuel Miranda&#39;s&nbsp;musical about <a href="/list/badass-alexander-hamilton-facts/setareh-janda" target="_blank">Alexander Hamilton</a>. The movie version of the&nbsp;Tony- and Pulitzer-winning production&nbsp;was originally supposed to be released in theaters in <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/movies/2020/02/03/hamilton-lin-manuel-miranda-broadway-movie-2021/4645978002/" target="_blank">2021</a>, but Miranda&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/Lin_Manuel/status/1260181905909129216" target="_blank">announced in a tweet</a> in May 2020 that it would instead premiere on Disney+ on July 3, 2020. The Disney streaming service&nbsp;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSCKfXpAGHc" target="_blank">released a trailer</a> on June 21, 2020, featuring&nbsp;scenes from the musical filmed at the Richard Rodgers Theatre&nbsp;in June 2016.&nbsp;

The characters in the musical are real-life people, and although they deliberately look a lot different from their historical&nbsp;counterparts, a side-by-side comparison of&nbsp;the Hamilton cast and actors vs. the real people they are portraying is an interesting history lesson. Or maybe you&#39;ve heard of the musical and its <a href="/list/best-songs-in-hamilton/ranker-music" target="_blank">soundtrack</a>, but want to see the Aaron Burr actor (Tony Award winner Leslie Odom Jr.) or the Philip Hamilton actor (Anthony Ramos plays Alexander Hamilton&#39;s&nbsp;son).&nbsp;

As Miranda <a href="https://twitter.com/Lin_Manuel/status/1274889996948910080" target="_blank">wrote in a tweet</a> when the trailer was released, &quot;May you always be satisfied.&quot;

Fans can only spot these details if they&#39;re looking extra close but it&#39;s totally worth it!&nbsp;

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 Fans can only spot these details if they're looking extra close but it's totally worth it!&nbsp;
 
