The Ghost Ship of Brooklyn: Uncovering New York’s darkest secrets of the Revolutionary War
The Brooklyn Navy Yard, no longer a bustling shipyard, lives on as a vibrant commercial compound of movie studios, bourbon
Read moreThe Brooklyn Navy Yard, no longer a bustling shipyard, lives on as a vibrant commercial compound of movie studios, bourbon
Read moreAsk any New Yorker at random where the site of Fort Washington once stood, and chances are your query will
Read moreYou may know Nathan Hale well from history books or from New York’s numerous memorials as a symbol of American patriotism, dying
Read morePODCAST Part Two of our two-part series on New York City in the years following the Revolutionary War. During a handful
Read moreHere’s some old fashioned New York City trivia for you — There’s never been a Speaker of the House from the
Read moreGeorge Washington’s copy of the Declaration of Independence is perhaps the most well-known of the almost 200 copies first made
Read morePODCAST The circumstances surrounding the Great Fire of 1776, the events of the Revolutionary War leading up to the disaster,
Read moreBig news in the world of numismatics — the U.S. Treasury Department has announced that Alexander Hamilton, long the solitary
Read moreThe Lower East Side lost a great one this week. Walter Kühr, the owner of the Main Squeeze accordion store, died
Read morePODCAST Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr met at a clearing in Weehawken, NJ, in the early morning on July 11,
Read moreRichmond Hill, the spacious mansion and 26-acre estate on the outskirts of town that had once been George Washington‘s headquarters
Read moreIndependence Day may be over, but our celebration of the Founding Fathers continues all this week, culminating in a brand
Read moreJames Earle Fraser’s colossal Washington statue out in Queens. (NYPL) Tomorrow (April 30th) is the 225th anniversary of the inauguration
Read moreCourtesy AMC This Sunday (9pm EST) marks the debut of AMC’s new Revolutionary War drama Turn, documenting the beginnings of
Read moreAbove: A wooden bridge in Kentucky using the Burr truss, invented by Theodore Burr and first used over the Hudson
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