Pulling Down the Statue of George III, Johannes Adam Simon Oertel, engraved by John C. McRae, published by Joseph Laing, 1859 MCNY The imposing 4,000-pound statue of George III arrived in Manhattan in ...
On June 28, 1776, the British attacked. Their warships pounded the fort on Sullivan’s Island. Their soldiers landed on its ...
Explore some of the people and places in NYC and the Hudson Valley related to our country’s origins in a war that created our nation.
Can you imagine New Jersey's economy without malls and warehouses? The state was agrarian in 1776, and therefore a target for ...
"I'm no longer just some Black person at the lower end of the spectrum working at menial jobs," Chapman said. "I fought for ...
Rebellious Africans: How Caribbean slavery came to the mainland -- Free trade in Africans? Did the Glorious Revolution unleash the slave trade? -- Revolt! Africans conspire with the French and Spanish ...
Documentary maker Ken Burns doesn’t think today’s polarized politics are anything new, especially for a country that, as he sees it, already had two civil wars — the American Revolution of 1776 and ...