7.11.1804: Alexander Hamilton was mortally wounded in a duel with Vice President Aaron Burr. Meet Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr in decidedly less lethal circumstances during their series of @americanhistoricaltheatre appearances at the Smithsonian National @PostalMuseum . The two bellicose gentlemen will engage in affairs of honorable words, with no shots fired but those of wit and rhetoric, twice (1PM and 2:30PM)/each day on Saturday 21 July and Saturday 18 August 2018 . . . The fateful pistols are on display in the museumβs exhibit, but fret not, dear reader; they are safely secured under lock & key . . . Eben Kuhns is #AlexanderHamilton John Zac is #AaronBurr . . This image was rendered during an American Historical Theatre presentation of the Hamilton v. Burr βduel lettersβ at the New York Historical Society, during a series of these shows created for the N-Y Historical Society . . . #NationalPostalMuseum @theahasociety #ThomasJefferson #theroomwhereithappens #foundingfathers #Hamilton #history #USA #America #patriotism #HamiltonDC