Welcome to Flashback: American Historians on Movies! We’re kicking things off with perhaps the biggest piece of history on film (and stage!) of our times – 2020’s filmed version of the 2015 stage musical Hamilton. Grace Mallon of the Conventions podcast joins and offers her excellent insights. Were early cabinet debates just like rap battles? Does Hamilton actually obscure the diversity of early America? Is it aware that the city of Philadelphia exists? We discuss all this and more in this first episode. 

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Flashback is graciously supported by the University of Oxford’s Rothermere American Institute

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