The Gotham Center is proud to announce the launch of NYC Revolutionary Trail, its first multimedia walking tour. This 90-minute jaunt through lower Manhattan details New York City's experience with the American Revolution from 1763 to 1789. Each stop provides audio narration with site information, character profiles, select video, and links to a far bigger library of text and imagery online, for a “choose your own adventure” model of self-guided tourism. Here you’ll learn about some of the period’s most famous characters and events — and many others that are far less known, for a trip that will challenge the knowledge of even the most ardent buff. You'll find several lessons plans for classroom use, too, plus a scavenger hunt and trail guide.

Join us at the NYC Fire Museum for a conversation with Untapped New York’s Justin Rivers and the Gotham Center's Director Peter-Christian Aigner and Ted Knudsen, discussing the project and its next stage of development. Discover some of the least-known historic sites from this period — like Golden Hill, where “the first blood of the Revolution” was shed (today, a side-street used for garbage) or Wallabout Bay, where most of the rebels died (the skulls of P.O.W.'s covering the beach for many years "like pumpkins in autumn"). You'll hear about some of the largely forgotten characters who defined this era and learn why New York should be considered the “city at the heart of the Revolution," this shift in focus ultimately yielding a far more diverse and complicated story.

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