Hamilton: Lin-Manuel Miranda On The Play's Historical Inaccuracies

his little giggle and "I know" at the beginning gives me life

When all is said and done, it doesn't matter because none of us were in the room where it happened....

*can't open jar *thinks of Hamilton *sings My Shot *opens *thanks Lin

“Angelica and him are soulmates” John Laurens clears throat from heaven

the man is NON STOP

I like how he addressed it and didn't leave people wondering why he did it. He is just an amazing person and I wish to work side by side with him one day. This guy is a role model.

It's the "Yay Hamlet" shirt I'M CRYING

everytime i see that 'genius' in the screen my brain is like- my mother was a genius GENIUS

Is it true Hamilton and the gang never actually did any rapping? I heard that's also an historical inaccuracy but I refuse to believe it.

More please.

Well, even if Mr. Miranda didn't push the sons away, all three of them who survived infancy were fifteen, twelve, and seven at the time their sister Eliza met and married Alexander Hamilton. Chances are Angelica still would've been pressured to "marry rich" in the event that none of her brothers either lived long enough to get married or even wanted to get married at all.

I had hoped that Hamilton would be 100% historically accurate but when I found the numerous historical inaccuracies, I found i didn't care. Hamilton stays true to the spirit of the founding fathers and their ideals and every change he makes is to tell a better story. I think It can be seen as more of an "adaptation" of his life rather than a biography and ultimately in an adaptation is supposed to make changes to fit the changes that come with it while staying true to the themes of the original. I think Hamilton does a spectacular job of that.

i just love the confirmation from Lin himself that angelica and hamilton are like soulmates

“History is different based on our accounts.” And that’s a main point of the musical. You also can’t come in expecting a musical/drama being 100% accurate.

lin has nice eyebrows

His point about seeing the different accounts in Helpless and Satisfied to show how history is different depending on who tells it seems like an argument for Ten Things One Thing. I love the cast album the way it is, of course, but when I heard that, it seemed to make everything fit.

I LOVE HIM HE IS AMAZING

Honestly I don't have a problem with this. It makes more sense dramatically, and that's that. What honestly does annoy me is his changes to the Election of 1800. It makes Aaron Burr look much more despicable than he really is: Aaron Burr was Thomas Jefferson's runningmate, and wasn't campaigning against him. Because of the way the electoral college worked at the time, there was a (basically inevitable) tie, and only then did Aaron Burr seek the presidency. The play makes it look like the Election of 1800 was Burr vs Jefferson, when in fact it was for the most part Adams vs Jefferson, with a huge fiasco at the end that exposed the problems with the electoral college. (not that people shouldn't have seen it coming. Hamilton tried his best to completely abuse the system to get some random guy he liked--Thomas Pinckney--as president in the election of 1796. That's a fantastic story and I'm kinda sad it never made its way into the musical.)

Lin is so cute this omg and his little giggle when he said I forgot was the best thing ever

Well, I don't think Hamilton actually rapped