How do you fight a piece of popular culture that completely mangles history? <\/p>\n\n\n\n
You put out some popular culture of your own<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Historians fighting back against the pop revisionism of <\/a>Hamilton <\/a><\/em>with a musical of their own<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Reed\u2019s \u201cThe Haunting of Lin-Manuel Miranda\u201d is an uncompromising take-down of \u201cHamilton,\u201d reminding viewers of the Founding Father\u2019s complicity in slavery and his war on Native Americans. It all fits into my plan to do a musical on the life and legacy of Calvin Coolidge. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" How do you fight a piece of popular culture that completely mangles history? You put out some popular culture of your own Historians fighting back against the pop revisionism of Hamilton with a musical of their own. Reed\u2019s \u201cThe Haunting of Lin-Manuel Miranda\u201d is an uncompromising take-down of \u201cHamilton,\u201d reminding viewers of the Founding Father\u2019s complicity in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-n-e","category-history-and-its-making"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69920"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69938,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69920\/revisions\/69938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\u201cMy goal is that this to be a counter-narrative to the text that has been distributed to thousands of students throughout the country,\u201d said Reed, who teaches at the California College of the Arts and the University of California at Berkeley and whose latest novel is \u201cConjugating Hindi.\u201d
Reed, whose play had a recent reading in New York and who is raising money for a four-week production in May, is part of a wave of \u201cHamilton\u201d skeptics \u2014 often solitary voices of dissent amid a wall of fawning attention \u2014 who have written journal articles, newspaper op-eds and a 2018 collection of essays, \u201cHistorians on Hamilton.\u201d
Miranda\u2019s glowing portrayal of a Hamilton who celebrates open borders \u2014 \u201cImmigrants, we get the job done!\u201d \u2014 and who denounces slavery has incensed everyone from professors at Harvard to the University of Houston to Rutgers.
They argue that Miranda got Hamilton all wrong \u2014 the Founding Father wasn\u2019t progressive at all, his actual role as a slave owner has been whitewashed and the pro-immigrant figure onstage hides the fact that he was, in fact, an anti-immigration elitist.
\u201cIt\u2019s a fictional rewrite of Hamilton. You can\u2019t pick the history facts that you want,\u201d said Nancy Isenberg , a professor of American history at Louisiana State University who has written a biography of Aaron Burr and is the author of \u201cWhite Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America.\u201d
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