I LOVE Dr Foster’s lectures! I know many folks think they’re a bit disjointed or he says”um” a lot but I believe he’s lecturing in real-time and making it personal. If only I had this type of lecture in my schooling I wouldn’t be trying to catch up on history in my later life !

I enjoy a lot of these lectures, thank you for putting them online.

Historian: BURR vs HAMILTON: (The Duel). Normally, in duels, you walk off ten steps, (which they did), present as low an outline as possible to your opponent, wait for a last-minute apology/concession, then fire at will (flag drop). This evidently went down. The two main eye-witness accounts vary because they were offered later by the two "Seconds" of Burr and Hamilton. It's generally acknowledged that Hamilton fired first - or at least initiated the simultaneous shots. Hamilton's shot missed Burr, hitting a tree. Hamiltonians would have us believe that it was a "deliberate" miss-shot fired into the air. If this were true, then why did Hamilton put his glasses on before firing his pistol? Burr's shot hit Hamilton's wrist first then ricocheted into his right-side abdomen piercing his liver. Hamilton's wrist could not have been raised in the air with this result. Dueling was against the law at this time, punishable by death in New York, so the two duelists carried out their archaic settlement on the shores of New Jersey. Interestingly, during this illegal act, Hamilton's Second was District Court "Judge" Nathaniel Pendleton. Hamilton provided the pistols, the same ones where his son lost his own life in a duel three years earlier. Hamilton was not "murdered." He was just a bad shot - even with his glasses on.

I’m from Mentor too😱 Alexander Hamilton and Washington were the most important founders.

Great lecture, I'm definitely gonna check out and sub. You do a very good job of keeping on task, keeping it lively and interesting, and you put out great information! Thanks

I am currently reading Ron Chernow's book.

Hamilton was thinking with his other head

Love this title!! not just because of the musical, I did buy the book from Ron Chernow, AH tributes everything he had to raise the system we adopted now, He is worth much more credit!!

Leaving out the "kinda", "sort of", "you know", "um" would make it a lot easier to listen. Like, you know? Wth does "Hamilton kind of speaking in public" mean??

The book brought me here, hell of a guy he was .

I like this background commentary! I wonder if someone here can tell whether Howard Fast's screenplay in that movie, "The Crossing, is accurate about Alexander Hamilton being the executioner of Hessians, with a sword, in a guard shack in the day-after -Christmas march on Trenton in 1776. I haven't found it elsewhere. Did it happen? What's a good place to find this information?

im very suprised not alot of people has seen this?

After counseling his son on fighting a duel, in which he was killed, Alexander Hamilton was in a tight spot when Aaron Burr challenged him to a duel.

Such a great lecture!

There's nothing tragic about Tyrants meeting this end

i wish this guy was my history teacher

What happened at the 49 minute mark? There is a skip in the lecture? What it accidental or did he say something someone didn't like?

It seems that if Hamilton just kept his mouth shut or at least reached some type of an agreement with Burr, some of the financial situations and other developments affected by Hamilton could have changed at least minorly the course of American (USA) Government. Thanks.

A lot of uhm awhs and is he telling us for real or sort of telling is

Chernow actually mentions there’s credence that they could have a romantic connection- he mentions the writing conventions of the day but you erroneously portray his mentioning that as a dismissal of the possible connection which he does not do. Why?

Wasn’t he the big government guy?

Hammi wants a Sammi

Was Hamilton Puerto Rican?

The title of this lecture should be "How to Say "Uh" and "Um" Fifty Thousand Times In A Little Over An Hour". So distracting I couldn't pay attention to what the speaker was trying to say.

1:01:17

Aaron Burr gets a bad rap

There it is again. 1757, not 1557

Why does he choose to call them republicans instead of jeffersonians/ democratic-republic to not conflict it with modern Republican Party

1555 - 1557, Proofreading is important!

dude came into the lecture with a cold, I wonder how many people got sick after this event🤔

You might want to rehearse your presentation a few times. Just saying-it borders on incoherent at times.

Uh

1555 or 1557 Proof reading is important!

McDonald's Residents.

very good lecture. but is it bothering anyone else how much he's coughing and sneezing????

Ugh