For more than 70 years, the Bronx County Historical Society has served as a cultural institution dedicated to documenting and preserving the history of the borough.<\/p>\n
Next week, members will kick off their own celebration for America250 with the launch of the new permanent exhibit at the Museum of Bronx History, entitled \u201cThe Bronx: Crucible of Liberty. Radicals, Runaways, & Revolutionaries.\u201d<\/p>\n
Steven Payne, the director of the Bronx County Historical Society, joined \u201cThe Rush Hour\u201d on Thursday to talk about the Bronx\u2019s significance in the American Revolution.<\/p>\n
Tap the video player above to watch the interview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For more than 70 years, the Bronx County Historical Society has served as a cultural institution dedicated to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278382,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[25,128,471,9,24,12,2370,63,129,131,130,3111,27,200],"class_list":["post-278381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-app-top-stories","tag-bronx","tag-dean-meminger","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-ny1-interviews","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news","tag-the-rush-hour","tag-top-stories","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278381\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}