What Impact Will the TV Streaming Release of Hamilton Have on Our Turbulent Times?

Five years ago, ‘Hamilton’ turned a revolution into a revelation — what now?

As Black Lives Matter protesters fill the streets, a show that portrays the Founding Fathers as Black and brown men gets its first national broadcast

America is in the midst of a massive project of recontextualizing itself — you might even call it a cultural revolution.

Part of this revolution includes tearing down, removing or altering monuments to white supremacist violence, from statues of Confederate president Jefferson Davis, Confederate general Robert E. Lee and President Andrew Jackson to “The Star-Spangled Banner” scribe Francis Scott Key.

And in this new world in which many white Americans are waking up to what Black people have long known, lands a wide release of Hamilton, Lin-Manuel Miranda’s musical theater project, which recontextualizes the country’s Founding Fathers, but especially its first Treasury secretary, Alexander Hamilton. Hamilton, which premiered at New York’s Public Theater in February 2015 before transferring to Broadway, will be available to stream July 3 on Disney+, the eve of the country’s 244th birthday. (Disney owns The Undefeated.)

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