Eliza Hamilton Part One - Chainsaw History Podcast

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Part One: Eliza Schuyler Hamilton

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Part One: Eliza Schuyler Hamilton

Jamie Chambers

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Bambi Chambers

Jun 12, 2024

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Bambi takes over the podcast and tells the story of Elizabeth Schuyler—most known to history and Broadway musical fans as the wife of Mr. Ten Dollar Bill, Alexander Hamilton. But Jamie learns that the Schuyler sisters and "Betsy" are far more than background characters and devoted wives. Using the Lin-Manuel Miranda musical as a frame of reference the siblings set the record straight about extraordinary women from the time of the American Revolutionary War.

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A brother and sister explore history with frequent profanity and casual disrespect. Listeners will learn young George Washington entered the French & Indian War as a corporate stooge and helped kick off the first true world war, that famously pro-segregation Alabama governor George Wallace was endorsed by the NAACP in his first race, and that former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich's first wife was originally his high school geometry teacher.

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