The 1776 Project is back. You might remember the right-wing “anti-woke” group, a New York-based national outfit that two years ago backed a slate of board candidates for the Olathe and Blue Valley ...
Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! On this day in 1776, a fire broke out and burned down much of Manhattan shortly after the British took the city during the Revolutionary War. View ...
Our very own history editor, Benjamin Waldman, happened across these mysterious vaults in Van Cortlandt Park dating from New York City’s colonial era. While researching the history of the Bronx, he ...
Brooklyn College historian Carp (Defiance of the Patriots) delivers a detailed report on the fire that destroyed “more than a fifth” of New York City in September 1776, six days after it was taken by ...
Military operations during the Revolutionary War mostly took place in New Jersey or New York, however the ways in which those events affected the local people is mostly neglected, not maliciously, but ...