What really happened between Angelica and Hamilton? Did she really ask her sister to "lend him to me for a little while"? Why did Eliza sign her name to the Federalist papers? Did Angelica get a little too close to Jefferson? What about all the Schuyler siblings who didn't make the musical? Join me in conversation with the Schuyler sisters' Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Amanda Vaill for a look at the real stories inside America's most famous love triangle.
(01:51) - Failing the Bechdel test
(04:40) - Catherine and Philip Schuyler, a productive marriage
(06:42) - The story of Dutch colonisation in the Hudson Valley
(10:28) - Romance, drama and theatrics: The Schuyler family's big feelings
(13:41) - Education and why the Schuyler girls wouldn't have learned Latin
(15:45) - Angelica's elopment and deceptive husband
(23:39) - Angelica's pragmatism
(24:44) - How Eliza meets Hamilton (not through Angelica)
(30:00) - A forbidden love
(34:40) - Ad break
(34:41) - Did Angelica heighten the Jefferson-Hamilton feud?
(40:11) - What actually happened between Angelica and Hamilton?
(41:29) - Angelica's politics
(43:49) - Eliza's role as Hamilton's intellectual sparring partner
(50:39) - Eliza's widowhood
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