William Smith Culbertson - Alexander Hamilton Essay, 1910

Alexander Hamilton Essay, 1910

In 1910, after graduation from the Yale Law School, Culbertson's 153-page essay on Alexander Hamilton was awarded the John Addison Porter Prize. The Porter Prize is awarded by The Kingsley Trust Association (The Scroll and Key Society) for a work of scholarship which, through original effort, gathers and relates facts and/or principles to make a product of general human interest. A review of this work by Worthington C. Ford appeared in September 1912. Ford reviewed the essay positively, noting nationalism is the "key-note" of the essay, lauding its "breadth and candor," but stating that "more could be made of Hamilton's own venture into a manufacturing concern..."

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