{"id":292296,"date":"2026-07-10T14:02:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T14:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/292296\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T14:02:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T14:02:15","slug":"revolutionary-new-york-city-america-at-250","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/292296\/","title":{"rendered":"Revolutionary New York City: America at 250"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorkalmanack.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Revolutionary-New-York-City-America-at-250.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-135709 lazyload\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Revolutionary-New-York-City-America-at-250-187x300.jpg\" alt=\"Revolutionary New York City: America at 250\" width=\"187\" height=\"300\"  \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-135709 lazyload\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Revolutionary-New-York-City-America-at-250-187x300.jpg\" alt=\"Revolutionary New York City: America at 250\" width=\"187\" height=\"300\"  \/><\/a>Revolutionary New York City: America at 250 (2026) is a five-borough collaborative multi-year effort by The Bronx County Historical Society, Historic Richmond Town, Center for Brooklyn History, and the Gotham Center, with contributions from Philipse Manor Hall, the Lott House, Queens County Farm, and others.<\/p>\n<p>This book of essays moves beyond the iconic battles and founding fathers to reveal the complex, messy, and deeply human reality of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorkalmanack.com\/tags\/american-revolution\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">American Revolution<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorkalmanack.com\/tags\/new-york-city\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York City<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>From the farms of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorkalmanack.com\/tags\/queens\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Queens<\/a> and the divided \u201cNeutral Ground\u201d of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorkalmanack.com\/tags\/the-bronx\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Bronx<\/a> to the Loyalist strongholds of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorkalmanack.com\/tags\/staten-island\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Staten Island<\/a>, the war-torn fields of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorkalmanack.com\/tags\/brooklyn\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brooklyn<\/a>, and the upended landscape of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorkalmanack.com\/tags\/manhattan\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Manhattan<\/a>, historians uncover the lives of ordinary people \u2014 women, farmers, the enslaved, lukewarm <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorkalmanack.com\/tags\/loyalists\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Loyalists<\/a>, and accidental Patriots \u2014 who navigated a world, a city, and a countryside turned upside down.<\/p>\n<p>Follow a young guide as he leads Washington on a daring reconnaissance of today\u2019s South Bronx. Learn how Manhattan\u2019s ancient forests vanished to fuel an occupying army. Discover how the lead in the city\u2019s elegant windows was melted into musket balls and contributed to the Continental Army\u2019s long-term survival.<\/p>\n<p>Featuring original scholarship, rarely seen sources, and a map of revolutionary sites in New York City, this volume reframes the nation\u2019s founding as a lived experience of crisis, choice, and survival.<\/p>\n<p>You can <a href=\"https:\/\/bronxhistoricalsociety.org\/store\/p\/rev-nyc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">purchase the book here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorkalmanack.com\/tags\/new-york-city\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read more about New York City history.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Revolutionary New York City: America at 250 (2026) is a five-borough collaborative multi-year effort by The Bronx County&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":292297,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-292296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292296","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=292296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}