American history. It's not perfect but we learn from it.

@geridannels1701

5 жыл бұрын

If so how do you explain what's happening in America today? Lack of education is what I blame. We as parents failed also. I'm 66 years old and wish I would of explained communism better.

@lafaqmacros8667

5 жыл бұрын

@@geridannels1701 how dare you say you would teach communism to us Americans ? Communism does NOT belong here in the U.S. It is a plague and like all plagues it MUST be put down.

@naturegirl8104

5 жыл бұрын

SCodiganKelly1983. I love America's history. Our Founding Documents & the Ideas behind them are quite extraordinary. It's a unique story and country.

@NamNguyen-kw8hl

5 жыл бұрын

We learn history so that we won't make the same mistake

@NamNguyen-kw8hl

5 жыл бұрын

@@geridannels1701 I was born from a Communist country and what I see are people wondering the streets to beg for some money so that they can find food I see families who were successful now struggling to raise themselves and their family Both my father and my mother family lives ruin because of one thing Communism I am telling you this not to convince you to change your view but I am telling you this so that you can see Communism brought to their people

Hamilton: “I am not throwing away my shot” 4:30 He throws away his shot.

@indigo-arts

4 жыл бұрын

123456789 HE AIMS HIS PISTOL AT THE SKY! WAIT!

@growls4851

4 жыл бұрын

BOOM

@theflyingeyeball

4 жыл бұрын

Raise a glass to freedom!

@paulinamags4587

4 жыл бұрын

Gamercharizardx something they can never take away

@giancedrick507

4 жыл бұрын

@@paulinamags4587 Raise a glass to the four of us!

In his own words Washington, describing his staff officer: "My boi."

@michaelrojas8658

4 жыл бұрын

Ibrahim SiAli They spoke proper English so no. Not even in fantasy does this sound okay.

@hhhuthhhjj5599

4 жыл бұрын

@@michaelrojas8658 it's a joke

@SinoLegionaire

4 жыл бұрын

@@michaelrojas8658 r/iamverysmart wants you back.

@tarataratara4901

4 жыл бұрын

Michael Rojas oh brother ... does your name on the street happen to be Michael “Debbie Downer” Rojas?? I’m not usually shocked, but I definitely would be if it’s a NO. Whomp whomp

@johnchambers2996

4 жыл бұрын

He was one of Washington's artillery officers; apparently a pretty good one too..

Don't forget, Hamilton is the founder of our financial system (our first Secretary of Treasury), he founded the Federalist party, created the U.S. Coast Guard, started the New York Post. This was a great man.

@williamrichards3707

3 жыл бұрын

Not to mention the weights and measures standard and a common currency. People forget the 13 colonies had 13 different sets of standard

@plainsimpletailor402

Жыл бұрын

"Hey everyone, you know how miserable life under British rule was? Well, how's about we just go ahead and copy almost every aspect of their system; from their centralized banking and mercantilism to their one-size-fits all governance that forces people who hate each other to comingle. Oh, and get this! I want to make the Presidency a lifetime appointment!" :faaaaaart:

@carguy3910

5 ай бұрын

Don’t forget what would become BNY Mellon Investment Bank.

Hamilton: *invents America* George Washington: "Boy"

@wariodude128

5 жыл бұрын

I now need a photoshop of Washington with a Kratos beard and Hamilton's head on the body of Atreus. That would be too perfect.

@jjphank

5 жыл бұрын

I'm sure people that lived in the 1960s didn't wake up every morning going "man it's the 60s can you believe it...", As if they knew 60's nostalgia in the present. Men work hard and become heroes they didn't start as Heroes.

@damoclesecoe7184

5 жыл бұрын

Zashra You win the internet.

@madisonbarrier8575

5 жыл бұрын

CALL ME BOY ONE MO TIME

@laynetx1

5 жыл бұрын

"Boy"..SERIOUSLY?! Put it in context. "My boy". A fatherless young man, a gentleman, whip-smart and capable, with great wisdom and integrity, talented and accomplished beyond his years despite his misfortunes in life, so respected and admired by Washington that he would mentor him and make him a trusted aide, colleague and friend - this is not someone Washington looked down on or patronized. "My boy" in that context, in that time, would have been an appropriate and affectionate term between men in that situation and a high compliment, especially coming from a respected older man, and surely a father-figure to Hamilton, of such distinction as Washington. So unfortunate that America lost such a great leader at such an early age - especially to a s*#t traitor like Aaron Burr. We need more leaders like Hamilton.

This is the stuff that was never taught in history class that I would have liked to have learned. It was always dates, places, and occurrences, very rarely the reasons why people did what they did or said.

@justsomebody-1665

5 жыл бұрын

i get what you're saying, but I think this video only makes sense BECAUSE of those history classes you had. When this guy says things like "continental congress" and "abolitionist" you know what he means because of those classes. You have the general framework of what was going on already in your mind because of history class. This video would be super confusing without it

@nvrumi

5 жыл бұрын

I like what you both said (Laughing and Just). I think I would have learned a lot more if my history teachers had included the facts with the story of history. The line of history would be filled with sidebars and asides as we learned when events occurred and what the terms meant. But the main focus should always be on the story and what can we learn from it.

@LaughingMan_d8D

5 жыл бұрын

@@justsomebody-1665 Most people don't like history because the way it's taught. It's dry, impersonal, distant. It doesn't usually put you in the minds of the people at the time, the reasons why people did what they did, both the good and the bad. What words mean, usually gets taught in English classes. History is about how we got to where we are. History in school was the teacher just making sure they checked the appropriate boxes for what was on the lesson plan, who cares if we actually learn something that matters. We'll just see if the students sponged up enough material to spew back out the right answers for that test. Few teachers I had didn't care of we learned or not, it was apparent to me as a student when one did and I respected those teachers, sadly none of those teachers that cared were history teachers.

@justsomebody-1665

5 жыл бұрын

@@LaughingMan_d8D Yeah, like i said before i get what you're saying. I don't disagree with you. I just think you also have to remember that all those dry boring facts are the foundation you need to understand the context in the cooler stories you want. And they probably don't have time in a 45 min class or whatever to fit all the facts and also a bunch of cool stories. But I agree more cool stories helps students pay attention and helps them be interested a LOT. I had a history teacher in college that taught that way and it was one of my favorite classes. I'm just saying I wouldnt have known wtf he was talking about if I hadn't had high school history first.

@RoseThistleArtworks

5 жыл бұрын

I totally agree with your post @@LaughingMan_d8D History classes were horrible, boring, memory tests for dates, place names, people names with almost zero connection to the people involved and what motivated them. Hollywood type productions understand the importance of the connecting motivations, but cannot be relied on for accuracy and freely admit adding or subtracting actual history "for dramatic purposes". This video was able to present the information, so schools should be able to.

Actually, I think it took a combination of Hamilton (the pragmatist), John Adams (the idealist), and Jefferson (the brilliant weirdo) to get it done - they made a perfect balance.

@ragingshibe

4 жыл бұрын

Spot on. A big flaw with Hamilton is if he alone ran the country, it would quickly turn into an oppressive state. But if Jefferson alone ran the country, the Union would quickly break apart. They needed each other to check and balance their views For the maximum benefit of the U.S.

@Fwazonly

4 жыл бұрын

The perfect commonwealth of propertied white soy boys in powdered wigs and silk knee breeches.

@chrisburkes2567

4 жыл бұрын

All three of them hated each other tho. Jefferson called Adams a hermaphrodite and Adams called Hamilton creole bastard, Hamilton called Adams fat and Jefferson and Hamilton debated all the time

@kelaarin

4 жыл бұрын

@@chrisburkes2567 The point being? Personal disagreements are nothing new (or old) to politics. They were just better at setting it aside for the good of the country than our current crop. After all, diplomacy isn't a skill you need for people who agree with you.

@kelaarin

4 жыл бұрын

@@Fwazonly Can you name a better one?

"The man who got it done." -with John Laurens-

@Ruvskiev

4 жыл бұрын

LAMS TIME!!!!¡¡!!!¡ Edit : my first name is also appropriate for the ship, its legit Lam XD

@xnovax4189

4 жыл бұрын

@@Ruvskiev no.

@melaniesnatchedyourmayonna1658

4 жыл бұрын

@@xnovax4189 yes

@ard1805

4 жыл бұрын

It was hard, but they worked it until everything fit just right.

2:02 The sonless Washington called the fatherless Hamilton... "Muh boi"

@dogman15

5 жыл бұрын

After the Revolutionary War was a peace they strived for.

@MoneyRecall

5 жыл бұрын

Hamilton was not a fan of being known as Washingtons Boy

@thooke222

5 жыл бұрын

Washington spelled it "boy" I'm sure.

@KyleKringle

5 жыл бұрын

@@dogman15 I'm glad there are KZreadrs from 8 to 10 years ago who can comment things like this on videos like these. I just wonder what *GEORGE* is up to!

@AtarahDerek

5 жыл бұрын

"CALL ME SON ONE MORE TIME!"

There's no perfect country, but there's no country like the US.

@RoderickVI

5 жыл бұрын

Actually, my country, of Switzerland, is ranked by most standards as the best in the world; we have among the highest quality of life, among the highest GDP per capita, the freest economy in the world, among the highest average IQ rates, among the highest degrees of development, a great patriotic sense, and have remained consistent in our ideas ever since the Sonderbund war. America USED to be comparable in many ways to America, and while it did make some improvements as time went on, it set steps back, such as with Lincoln centralizing government further, Woodrow Wilson, FDR and Nixon making the American economy less free, and everything Obama did. America is undoubtably the biggest and greatest nation in the world, but quantity != quality, and while it might be pretty up there in terms of quality, certainly ahead of our neighbors (France, England and Germany), it still is no rival to the degree of freedoms and people we have in Switzerland. At least not so until you recover what made you great in the first place, and without Ron Paul, you will not achieve so...

@jacobriley-plater5011

5 жыл бұрын

@@RoderickVIAnd how many times have u read Atlas Shrugged (Eye Roll)

@p0kiipanda

5 жыл бұрын

Paramone Gaming Wow you’re so much better than everyone else. Switzerland is pretty great but get off of your high horse. You couldn’t have worded that any less pretentiously, huh? The comment you replied to never said America was the best. It literally said the US isn’t perfect, but there’s no country like it. Come down from that soap box, friend.

@tuggspeedman1359

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah

@dislike_button33

5 жыл бұрын

@@RoderickVI Have the same population as America, then attempt saying the same thing. Population is an enormous factor.

source: Hamilton the musical

@TheBearDrew000

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah i feel like i learned nothing from this other than exact dates

@SovereignStatesman

4 жыл бұрын

Yep Hamilton was full of shit, and the musical was his farts

@JohnJP1016

4 жыл бұрын

The biography says the same

@freeminecraft2003

4 жыл бұрын

@Alyssa Schiavello I think they mean the Musical filtered and didn't mention everything Hamilton did. Hamilton was shitty and the musical made him less shitty

@Junitaco

4 жыл бұрын

@@SovereignStatesman of course someone with a Jefferson avatar would say that. Hamilton was an incredible man. You should read Ron Chernow's biography of Hamilton . Well, you should try to read it. But you'll obviously fail to finish it or understand what little you read.

2:02 “daddy is calling” I got it now

I actually like how balanced this video is. There’s just one problem It’s actually debatable whether or not Hamilton shot his gun in the air, or at Burr and he had just missed, and historians still argue about it to this day. Other than that, it’s pretty okay.

@dislike_button33

5 жыл бұрын

Literally everything is debatable. Even if something was proven, people will debate about it. Exhibit A: Flat Earthers.

@vanorum3804

5 жыл бұрын

Pie there are also histotians who are basically "shipping" people. For example, some leftists claim that Hamilton was bisexual because he had a close relationship with John Laurens.

@Pie___

5 жыл бұрын

Vanorum I don’t think that’s leftists, I think that’s just Tumblr users

@Pie___

5 жыл бұрын

Nephi Nelson Flat Earthers are a bad example because something is only debatable if there isn’t enough evidence for it, and there’s plenty of evidence of the earth being round

@obliviousotterI

5 жыл бұрын

@@vanorum3804 I mean, there is some historical evidence to support it, nothing enough to confirm it, but its plausible at least

Meanwhile Aaron Burr is all but forgotten about and Hamilton gets videos on PragerU!

@MoneyRecall

5 жыл бұрын

@sirsaint88 Aaron Burr had hustle but not much else as .Far as I can tell everything he touched failed. He even managed to get a large part of I believe New York sick with a failed "Fresh water" system.

@AtarahDerek

5 жыл бұрын

Aaron Burr is the villain in our history. Death doesn't discriminate between the sinners and the saints. It takes and it takes and it takes. History obliterates. In every picture it paints, it paints you and all your mistakes. But we do also remember Burr as the grandson of Jonathan Edwards, so, you know, there's that.

@NolanMc88_

5 жыл бұрын

Well, the broadway show hamilton is accurste that aaron burr was the person who held no strong opinions, this attitude practically did nothing to make him important in history, the only notable thing he did was shooting hamilton. If he did anything else notable i would be genuinely surprised as i am constantly looking at historical documents and reading books about american political figures and I've never heard of him doing anything else particularly important

@jackmcinerney1030

5 жыл бұрын

@@NolanMc88_ He tried to start his own country and become the king of it

@mercedesgla6197

5 жыл бұрын

Aaron Burr was an ideal-less moral-less man who wanted to do nothing more than call the shots in the country and be on the highest shelf. He would do anything to get to the top like...oh I don’t know maybe marry a woman take all of her money and leave (which he did) the only reason history remembers him is because he shot Hamilton so yes a video about Hamilton...not Burr

“Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.” Shakespeare

All the hamilton fans roll up like: MHM. MHM. YEP. SEEMS LEGIT!

@abbywiley5981

4 жыл бұрын

😂 pretty much.

"CALL ME SON ONE MORE TIME!"

🇺🇸 Let's get out and vote people! God bless the U.S.A. 🇺🇸

@keithdavanzo1798

5 жыл бұрын

Yes we cannot not the blood she'd and sacrifice of our founding fathers be destroyed by these unamerican leftist politians and there globalist policies

@hamstersniffer

5 жыл бұрын

I never do early voting. I love the tradition of casting my ballot on Election Day. Sure wish there were more Hamilton candidates to vote for.

@keithdavanzo1798

5 жыл бұрын

@Jack R I could possibly vote for a moderate JFK demicrat if the GOP candidate wasn't good

@blainevolesky9653

5 жыл бұрын

I'm keeping Reynolds in Des Moines and Blum in Washington tomorrow.

@kfoster3616

5 жыл бұрын

IMO - They are all bad.....

All he had was honor, a tolerance for pain, a couple of college credits and his top-notch brain

@springer2226

3 жыл бұрын

Is that a Hamilton lyric?

@arrigo7476

2 жыл бұрын

@@springer2226 Yes, it's "Helpless"

@plainsimpletailor402

Жыл бұрын

He argued for the Presidency to be a lifetime appointment.

"Immigrants, we get the job done."

@theservius2913

4 жыл бұрын

@@Nnnnn636 yes.

@olayemichayah466

4 жыл бұрын

American Statist Exactly! Not third worlders.

@raginbakin1430

4 жыл бұрын

@@Nnnnn636 Ahem! You forgot Asian immigrants.

@mastersonogashira1796

4 жыл бұрын

American Statist technically he is from the Caribbean

@chrisburkes2567

4 жыл бұрын

@@Nnnnn636 Alexander Hamilton was from the carribean

Theres a million things he haven't done

@mauriziosquadrito3391

5 жыл бұрын

But just you wait..

@marcoatienza8884

5 жыл бұрын

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7...

@orange-one

5 жыл бұрын

@@marcoatienza8884 🤣🤣 best line

@jfrd-pw4hk

5 жыл бұрын

*hasn't

Last time I was this early,Hillary was expected to win the presidency.

@ChargeCity

5 жыл бұрын

ahhh the cheap Hillary LOLs, may they never end

@aureliousofphoenix7811

5 жыл бұрын

Last time I was this late, Hillary lost.

@marlenec1022

5 жыл бұрын

@@aureliousofphoenix7811 😄😄😄😄 #metoo 😄

@skitboyz7418

5 жыл бұрын

*_MAGA_*

@all4senna

5 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂

John Adams being excluded is a sad but inevitable custom when it comes to discussing our nations history. Adams like the red headed middle child, lights the fire under the ass of 2nd Continental Congress to demand independence and is always cast side as a secondary character.

@michaelvavrinec9761

4 жыл бұрын

Boy, ain't that the truth!

@CommanderSammer

4 жыл бұрын

Watch the musical 1776

@littledrummergirl_19

4 жыл бұрын

Commander Sammer “sit down John!”

@CommanderSammer

4 жыл бұрын

@@littledrummergirl_19 yes 😂

@williamrichards3707

3 жыл бұрын

Defines being underappreciated

All them Hamilton fans out there already know this s*** 😂

Aaron Burr avoided New Jersey and New York for a while after the duel. Dueling was illegal in both states.

@harlleygurrola8394

5 жыл бұрын

David Cappadoccia New Jersey

@manoftruth0935

5 жыл бұрын

Harlley Gurrola I said both states. If he went back before charges were dropped, he would’ve been executed

@wizkidgamer9942

5 жыл бұрын

Jackass

@MoneyRecall

5 жыл бұрын

They just didn't enforce it very will in Jersey.

@shanewhitefeather6298

5 жыл бұрын

I thought dueling was, and still is, legal in New Jersey

Jefferson invented America & Hamilton carried it out. The Federalist Papers show his deep thinking. But, his idea of a Central Banks was quite at odds with our other Founders.

@mercedesgla6197

5 жыл бұрын

Nature Girl if Jefferson was president now a days our government would be all liberal ideals, because he believe that all “revolution” (or riots they’re the same thing to him) is good, so if he was president we would be stuck in democratic socialism because that’s what everyone is pushing for and rioting about. Hell, he’d probably support antifa

@jonmkl

5 жыл бұрын

Fundamentally Adequate Quintessentials This is idiotic. Antifa and Democratic Socialism are in favor of weakening individual property rights, and individual rights period in order to make a fairer world, this is the opposite of what Jefferson would want. If you legitimately think Jefferson would have backed a stronger central government policing free thought and free speech than you must think Jefferson was an idiot and a hypocrite.

@AlphaLeaderZ

5 жыл бұрын

@@caleb7660 what are you talking about? The most powerful people in the world are the ones who own banks

@funbigly

4 жыл бұрын

@@AlphaLeaderZ what are you talking about?? Your statement is of zero relevance to your counterparts'.

@jfrd-pw4hk

4 жыл бұрын

@@caleb7660 Jackson's idea cracked under pressure coz it's worse than not having a central bank.

At the end, Hamilton died because he trow away *_his shot_* and Burr didn't *_wait for it_*

@prowler1902

4 жыл бұрын

Throw*

Without Hamilton we might not have a “United” states.

@russiauncensored7788

3 жыл бұрын

We are definitely the latter of what he said was America's choices. Just an illusion/appearance of a union. We are divided beyond comprehension.

wasn't hamilton an advocate of big banks, like the federal reserve?

@johnfuzz704

5 жыл бұрын

also would like to know this. isnt that why Burr shot him?

@michaelweber5968

5 жыл бұрын

Hamilton was in favor of a National bank and got one started Andrew Jackson did not renew the contract of that bank

@SilverBearAgAu

5 жыл бұрын

Yes. He also wanted big government and wanted the people to be ruled by it. Saying he "invented America" is ridiculous. That's something liberals say. It makes no sense. If he "invented" anything he invented the Federal Reserve Bank and the demise of Free America. Jefferson and Madison (true Americans) did not like him one bit because he often undermined the Free America idea. They wanted him as far away from the writing of the constitution as possible, but his banking buddies kept him in play. He is George Soros.

@johnfuzz704

5 жыл бұрын

thanks for this response Silver Bear. it is sort of what i was thinking...

@err_kk

5 жыл бұрын

If Congress controlled the banks then yes, but having an abomination such as the F. Reserve should have NEVER been allowed. America was tricked, and we pay the consequences for it today.

God bless our country 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 like if you are glad to be an american

@Keegeth

5 жыл бұрын

If you love American GO VOTE GOP! Oh and LOUD NOISES!

@tvremote9394

5 жыл бұрын

Maybe the America of a few years ago but right now, Nah. I'm kinda embarrassed by my country separating children from innocent parents who are trying to seek asylum here and for supplying bombs which are used to kill children in school buses in Yemen.

@Keegeth

5 жыл бұрын

@@tvremote9394 Do you know what asylum is? You can't just be from Brazil, come up to America and claim asylum then become a US citizen.

@princessaiko

5 жыл бұрын

If Hamilton could time-travel into our times, his first questions might be: Why do the Democrats want to destroy America? What happened to morals, common sense, and common decency? And why does the Israeli president get 26 times standing ovations in Congress, while our US President is for the most part vilified?

@dorism4697

5 жыл бұрын

@No need to worry about my username, unbelievable that so many Americans do not know what has been going on at the US - Mexican border for DECADES: The Mexican drug cartels have been making BILLIONS smuggling drugs, weapons, exotic animals, and trafficking people, including children, into the sex industry, farms, factories, etc. Many of those "families" are "coyotes"/cartel thugs who kidnap, rape, and even kill those children. These are the results of illegal activity in any country where thugs are allowed to conduct business.

I am ALEXANDER HAMILTON, HAMILTON! JUST YOU WAAAAIIIIT! I am NOT throwing away my shot!

I learned all this from the musical, but this video polished my knowledge.

@math2.076

4 жыл бұрын

Same

@Junitaco

4 жыл бұрын

Manuel Lin Miranda was inspired to write the musical after reading Ron Chernow's biography of Hamilton. I cannot stress enough how much you should read it.

@sbyrstall

4 жыл бұрын

The musical is overrated. Read the book instead.

When people talk about Hamilton, it's almost always that musical It's actually annoying

@GeronKizan

5 жыл бұрын

Same. Am I alone here who wasn't a fan of the musical?

@orange-one

5 жыл бұрын

I didnt care about hamilton until that musical happened so it a good thing. Im sure im not the only one

@pythonprogrammer6773

5 жыл бұрын

I agree. My sister is addicted to it.

@portgasdann3389

5 жыл бұрын

@@orange-one Agreed. I'm not American so I don't know much about America, but Hamilton made me interested in the historical Alexander Hamilton.

@IvanVladVodka

5 жыл бұрын

I got out of high school not to long ago. Dear god, that was the only thing the girls talked about. You don't go through 4 years of that without some form of PTSD from the damn songs lol

I am not American, but I do idolize the Founding Fathers of the USA

Wow. I spent 6 years and 170,000 dollars getting my undergraduate degree in Canadian History, but I've learned more from this video than I did in all that time. Prager is the real University. This is what it means to be truly educated. I wish Aaron Burr was alive today so that I could avenge Alexander Hamilton.

@FretfulClown95

2 жыл бұрын

Is this satire?

He also invented the musical

@angusdog22

Ай бұрын

😂😂

100% Hamilton could run as a Republican today and the Dems would smear him as adulterous. He was, however, he was also brilliant. ...They wouldn't even vote for Hamilton.

@Marc.1776.

5 жыл бұрын

I don't think it's possible to compare politicians today with at any point in history. Even a liberals then would be extreme right today. And a conservative today would be extreme left.

@christopheraddeo5949

5 жыл бұрын

To be fair, Hamilton did have the first sex scandal in the US

@err_kk

5 жыл бұрын

What in the Sam Hill!?

@MoneyRecall

5 жыл бұрын

@samual hill they smeared him back then too. Thomas Jefferson was one of the hard chargers and even continued after his death.

@cohortConnor

5 жыл бұрын

Chris Addeo that was all just to tarnish his reputation

Oh man you need to show this to Jacksfilms

@uj8719

5 жыл бұрын

@Sage Marchand Jacksfilms should have hosted this episode for PragerU.

@cassie1421

5 жыл бұрын

Always wants to go to sleep: Alexander Ambien

@uj8719

5 жыл бұрын

PragerU made a video 'bout him Alexander Republican

@Spasoooo

5 жыл бұрын

U J eyyy found another comment finally

@Boristien405

5 жыл бұрын

U J - Too bad I think John is a libtard. He lives in California so what can you expect. He’s probably not that involved/moderate though.

I have the utmost respect for the founders of our country. However, it’s shocking to me how little John Adams gets talked about. He was an integral part in the founding of America and one its earliest patriots.

I always watch this channel’s advertisements on other people’s videos; they’re just so well-made and easy to understand.

Even Blacks love this guy they made a soul musical about him in his honor called Hamilton Edit: Jesus re-reading my comment and it sounds kinda racist LOL I didn’t think I’d get so many likes I was just kidding you guys.

@ag3957

5 жыл бұрын

Blacks like him because of the musical.

@Exachad

5 жыл бұрын

Duhh, he was an abolitionist!

@itamarlevy9

5 жыл бұрын

@Timmy Donnovan you would be surprised

@rebekahsegun8319

5 жыл бұрын

The composer of the musical is a light skinned Puerto Rican.

@sjappiyah4071

5 жыл бұрын

Dawn Ripper lool Exactly

- Alexander Hamilton: The man who invented America - Alexis de Tocqueville: The man who push America to be a super power of the world :-0

@frankdamsy9715

5 жыл бұрын

I'd say America becoming a superpower had more to do with the events of the 20th century than the 19th

@dislike_button33

5 жыл бұрын

A lot of great Alex in history...

@timber72

5 жыл бұрын

@@frankdamsy9715 Disagree, to an extent. It is the backbone of the 19th century, built by the Industrial Age, and tempered by the Civil War, that put America into the position of becoming a superpower.

@frankdamsy9715

5 жыл бұрын

@@timber72 I wouldn't consider the Civil War part of that, I would however consider the Spanish American War in place of the Civil War. Also many nations took part in the industrial revolution, but only the US came out on top, and that was definitely because of events in the 20th century and to a lesser extent the move from coal to petroleum for power

@timber72

5 жыл бұрын

@@frankdamsy9715 The Spanish American war was literally a blip on the map, The US Civil War...predicted by Jefferson, by the way, as the potential eventual resolution to the slavery issue...put the principles of the Founders..."E Pluribus Unum"...to the test...a test from which it emerged victorious, not without scars, but stronger for it. Had the South won, of course the US would have been fractured, possibly into several different nations, and would never have been a superpower.

I enjoy these informative videos. I just learned more about Hamilton in 5 minutes than I had in 48 years. Thank you all. Keep them coming.

Your presentation on A. Hamilton was informative, interesting and it peaked my curiosity to learn more about this very special man. Thank you!

Proud to be assigned as Hamilton by every test like 'Which Founding Father Are You?'

Well if it wasn’t for Sam Adams who got the ball rolling, Hamilton wouldn’t have been able to “invent” America. 🇺🇸

@DavidRay39

5 жыл бұрын

*wouldn't*

@Warrenmitchum

5 жыл бұрын

True but if hamilton wasn’t there then Sam Adams plight would’ve been in vain. This vid focused on hamilton but they are all needed. All the founders whether they did too little or too much.

@planetmikusha5898

5 жыл бұрын

We should thank Sam Adams for the beer.

@k.popper2620

5 жыл бұрын

@@planetmikusha5898 ... no that would be Jim Koch.

@Spasoooo

5 жыл бұрын

"who? " everyone

Thanks for this!! I haven't had the time to see the musical yet. It's on my list, but I just can't seem to squeeze it in. This was a wonderful "cliff notes version" so I thank you! It'll be great to show my kids and short enough that they won't get "bored" before the end! It might even peak their interest to watch the musical with me!

Excellent report; clear, thorough and very incisive. Thank you.

But, Chuck norris invented america... And the fork.

@japi4669

5 жыл бұрын

wow

One short video can't go into the extremely intense and deep bitter difference in beliefs between Hamilton and Jefferson. For a start google "hamilton jefferson" . Maybe the video is a tiny bit too rosy in ignoring these things.

@garrettlees

5 жыл бұрын

Bob Elschlager, yes

@jovanygertler

5 жыл бұрын

exactly I'm more of a Jeffersonian than a Hamiltonite? Hamilton is the reason we have a large centralized government. And pretty much his policies can be traced back to what we now call the Federal Reserve. No doubt he was a brilliant man, but you can definitely say we are living in Hamilton's world not Jeffersons. This coming from someone who lives in NYC, but desperately yearns to live as a small time farmer lol. The end of the video brings the point home though, there was a delicate balance between Jefferson's and Hamilton's vision. A certain ying and yang aspect or as JP says Chaos and Order. Unfortunately today, we have lost complete sight of that balance.

@johnreynolds6432

5 жыл бұрын

Yes....WAY too rosy.

@timber72

5 жыл бұрын

Agreed.

@AtarahDerek

5 жыл бұрын

I'm still looking and waiting for the punchline of that Hamilton-Washington-Jefferson fishing trip.

What an incredible story America is. Thankful for these great videos. I share them with young people in my life. I grew up in the 60/70s. We learned much of this. But not all. These men were brilliant beyond their time. #ILoveAmerica 🤠🇺🇸🤠🇺🇸

Thank you, very informative !!! And quite elegant.

Wonder what our Founding Fathers would think of us if they were alive today

@jacklonghearse9821

5 жыл бұрын

They'd be amazed that their big gamble grew into something real that has lasted strong for 243 years.

@scapingby

5 жыл бұрын

they would probably be dissapointed because their standards wouldn't match today. we'd probably look deranged with our choice of clothes, music etc.

@davedove67

5 жыл бұрын

I think they would have mixed feelings. They would be amazed at how their "experiment" had flourished and grown, influencing nations around the world with their principles of freedom. But they would also be horrified at how powerful the central government had grown, a lot of our "foreign entanglements", and how much the people let the government interfere with their individual lives.

@kyled1673

5 жыл бұрын

They would be absolutely horrified by the fact that this country participates in preemptive wars and has a reckless foreign policy.

@joebodynobody764

5 жыл бұрын

I think they'd be proud that so many people are so passionate about the direction they feel our country should be headed. Pretty sure they'd hate Democrats though.

Why people tend to forget John Adams

@bentonrp

3 жыл бұрын

I loved the John Adams miniseries. Took a long time for me to get into it, but for all it's flaws, there's unique great things about it!

Excellent as usual..very informative....thank you!

I love my country and I'm so glad to be this blessed.

Did he not try to make america a debt based country with a Central Bank?

@garrettlees

5 жыл бұрын

Populist Revolution, Yes. Thank you for being the only other critical comment. This video is b.s.

@SilverBearAgAu

5 жыл бұрын

@@garrettlees I agree. I see a lot of praise for him here. It's sad that Prager U is so blind to this.

@MoneyRecall

5 жыл бұрын

@Populist Revolution yes yes he did. I still can't tell if he did it because he wanted change and advancement of the economy or because he was with British bankers. I do know he was in league tho with a bunch of speculators during the time when the US took on the states debts.

@pedronunez3456

5 жыл бұрын

For a second I thought I was the only one. Glad I'm not the only one who knows about Hamilton's treachery. He got shot for wanting a central bank.

@kzizzles8329

5 жыл бұрын

Personally, I am a bigger fan of Thomas Paine. Prager U in some ways was right, he was brilliant but what they neglected is that his politics were authoritarian in nature. The rest of the founding fathers did well in diluting his radicalism.

I can't wait for this place to be a real universety.

@NULL-ug7ve

5 жыл бұрын

Care to elaborate. I'm not quite sure what this channel is but I'm interested

@1lobster

5 жыл бұрын

Jack R, go back to LA you gay hipster.

@1lobster

5 жыл бұрын

GΔUZE, watch it for your self and make your own decisions.

@Pomiferous

5 жыл бұрын

Why Lobster? You want to pay large sums of money and hear only left wing ideology.

@1lobster

5 жыл бұрын

Double D, Prager U is a conservative channel, what you said makes no sense.

Joseph, this is the best video I've seen in weeks!

That was an amazingly informative and useful video. I knew less about Hamilton than the other founders mentioned in the video.

Why isn’t lin-Manuel Miranda here?

@Nickname10344

4 жыл бұрын

Because Prague U

Well deserving of a musical

Thank you for an incredibly informative video. I am 54 and new very little of who he really was.

I never knew about most of this information regarding Mr. Hamilton. Thank you for enlightening me.

#GodBlessAmerica

The single founding father that leftests actually respect.

@oliverriggle2581

3 жыл бұрын

Cairo Nerf how do you figure

@caironerf5986

3 жыл бұрын

@@oliverriggle2581 because of Hamilton the Musical

@oliverriggle2581

3 жыл бұрын

Cairo Nerf what makes you think people on the left just hate founding fathers tho

@johnweber4577

18 күн бұрын

Which is ironic, because in actuality he was probably one of the most right-wing Founding Fathers generally speaking.

As a former homeless man and now a small business owner, Alexander Hamilton speaks my language!

The explanation is soooo clear! I love it!

God, I absolutely love Hamilton. His life was interesting and his political views smart- If he were alive today and ran for President, no doubt would he would’ve won. He’s also just a relatable person, such as him being from a poor family, not having a father, being bisexual...

I'm guessing this was a backup video by PragerU, because the transcript isn't a link to their site but some random one about Hamilton. Makes sense, seeing how relatively unbiased the video is compared to almost every other video.

This is probably the only Prager U video that I'm hype about!

Hamilton brilliant man. Dig into the national archives such a wealth of information and you can even look up treaties.

Jacksfilms: *starts seizing*

When Aaron Burr’s second wife sought a divorce, she chose Alexander Hamilton Jr. to be her divorce lawyer. All the paperwork was finalized on September 14, 1836. Burr later had a stroke that very same day and died.

Wow! Thanks for your teaching! (a german who lives in Switzerland)

One of my favorite videos ever great job

that guy who shot Hamilton is going to get so much hate now

@kyled1673

5 жыл бұрын

Not really. Hamilton was for big government and financial slavery through central banks, we don't want that trash running our country anymore.

@AtarahDerek

5 жыл бұрын

Actually, Burr has NEVER been more sympathetic than he is now, and that's a direct result of the musical. The most popular song from that musical is Burr's. He's probably the only Broadway character that people eagerly audition for specifically. If any historical figure's reputation was damaged by the musical, it was Jefferson's. And that mainly because they changed his personality a LOT in order to fit the narrative. But Jefferson of the musical isn't the Jefferson we see through history's eyes; he's the Jefferson we see through Hamilton's eyes. And while Hamilton used to be friends with both Burr and Madison, he held nothing but contempt for Jefferson. The only time they ever agreed on anything was when Islamic terrorists threatened American properties abroad (you read that right). Jefferson took a strong stance on the defense of America against terrorism, while Burr rode the fence about it. That's the only reason Hamilton endorsed Jefferson for president over Burr. So in a musical told from Hamilton's perspective, no love would be lost on T-Jeff. But I'll tell you what, Jefferson's love of macaroni and cheese has become downright memetic, thanks to the inspiration of the musical.

It's my understanding, the evidence is mixed on firing in the air. On the one hand, some say he announced his intention to do so before the duel. Others say he did no such thing, suffered a hair-trigger discharge whilst leveling the pistol, & only later did some make up the aforementioned claim to cover for his honor. Historians will probably never know the truth. But, in any event, his was, sadly, a pointless death.

@meganthomas4768

5 жыл бұрын

Soldierboy54b I don’t think that it is really debatable whether he announced his intention before the duel, the document he wrote and the letters to his wife all in his hand say he was intending to reserve his fire - That’s not to say Burr knew that (though I don’t think it justified what he did.) in fact burr probably didn’t know. You are right though, it was a pointless death. Even if he did throw it away instead of reserve completely, it landed in a tree far above Burr’s head, which may have meant it went off while early while he was aiming to the sky. I think you either have to believe one of the first two, or call Hamilton a liar. I think in recent years many have gone for the latter option to restore some of Burr’s honour.

This is not about politics but I learned about Alexander Hamilton when I was in the Armys 1st division. I served in D battery in the 5th field artillery battalion that is the Alexander Hamilton battery that has a history as far back as the Revolutionary war.

Thank you for this inspiring video

In the map of the colonies they show, what happened to the Virginia colony? They left out West Virginia, which didn't separate from the original Virginia until 1861 -around the start of the Civil War. Did they miss that fact completely, or just dumb it down?

I loved it. I'm learning much more about Hamilton (not because of that stupid play) and other founders of our great republic and it's making me more appreciate and love my country- the United States of America. May G-d bless it and give us the courage and wisdom to preserve this great country.

Amazing and easy explanation Weill add some more things to. When we talk about politic of america and England and get to choose a extra topic in English class again I will talk about him.

That was fantastic, thank you!

Hamilton was a statist who didn’t even want the bill of rights in the constitution

@juliuscaesar1698

4 жыл бұрын

He feared that by outlining "exceptions" to powers not enumerated in the first place, it would give the government claim to those powers. He was proven 100% correct.

@wokeeye6441

4 жыл бұрын

At least he wasn't a corporatist. In the state there is a chance for democracy.

@jfrd-pw4hk

4 жыл бұрын

Who cares? Adams and Jefferson were there as check and balance. Hamilton was the check and balance to the two. Need I remind you that Jefferson is a staunch slave-owning Francophile who's obsessed with mob rule?

Too bad he was an adulterer. But a true genius in other aspects.

Please keep the information coming

This was the first PragerU video I've enjoyed watching. It didn't feel like it had much of an agenda and it didn't feel like propaganda. Good job guys. Good video.

Jacksfilms would have been proud if he sees this

Greetings from Canada. Based on the videos like the one above, and the comments below, it is certain that USA is still the leading, perhaps the only remaining nation, that promotes critical thinking and respect for the knowledge and education. Don't take this for granted and always protect it. I wish Canadians can learn this from our neighbours.

Love the historical videos

Really well-done!

YOOoooo, The musical was so good, they made Hamilton a real thing.

Hamilton truly deserves a spot on Mount Rushmore!

@pedronunez3456

5 жыл бұрын

No, he deserved what he got. The founders understood the dangers of a central bank. " Central bank is more dangerous... than standing armies". Hamilton wanted us to have a central bank. That's why he got shot

@pedronunez3456

5 жыл бұрын

@@dislike_button33 it is if you're interested in enslaving a whole nation.

@asielmilian38

5 жыл бұрын

Dawn Ripper I think he would have been a great president.

fascinating - well done sir

An imperfect man perfectly suited to the time and tasks laid before him...

PragerU, we already know about Alexander Hamilton. There's a whole musical about him

"I consider Alexander Hamilton to be one of the greatest server admins our world has seen." -George Washington

@coolbeans6148

5 жыл бұрын

Washington was his lap dog.

While I was listing to this video I keep thinking about the Hamilton musical that tells the tale of Alexander Halton's life through song and dance.

i am OBSESSED