“The room where it happens” in the musical Hamilton is where Alexander Hamilton made a deal with Jefferson that formed the treasury and united the nation. UT English Professor Misty Anderson penned this blog post for the Huffington Post noting that, the room where it happens is the classroom where, without guns or insults, “we engage with history and the demands it makes on us, where we nurture citizens capable of critical thought and of imagining a world beyond their own necessarily limited experiences.” Read the full story.