History, Natural History & the Arts
Fraunces Tavern Museum will host “Female Genius: Eliza Harriot and George Washington at the Dawn of the Constitution,” a free program by Mary Sarah Bilder on Thursday, May 19th.
In this lecture, Mary Sarah Bilder looks to the 1780s, the Age of the Constitution, to investigate the rise of a radical new idea in the English-speaking world: female genius. [Read more…] about Female Genius: Eliza Harriot and George Washington
Since 1972, the Fraunces Tavern Museum Book Award has been presented annually to the author of the best newly published work on the American Revolutionary War, combining original scholarship, insight, and good writing.
This award is one way the Museum fulfills its mission to educate the public about the Revolution and acknowledge the historical community dedicated to the study and public education regarding the Revolution. [Read more…] about Fraunces Tavern Museum Book Award Winners
The Fraunces Tavern Museum has announced “Hamilton and Washington in New York City,” a walking tour led by Bruce Racond, set for April 23rd and 24th. [Read more…] about Hamilton & Washington Walking Tour of New York City
The Lower Manhattan Historical Association will honor the 292th anniversary of the consecration of the first synagogue in North America on April 8th. The ceremony will involve the presentation of the Gershom Mendes Seixas Religious Freedom Award to Rabbi Joseph Potasnik who has fostered Rabbi Seixas’ ideals of religious freedom. [Read more…] about Rabbi Joseph Potasnik To Receive Religious Freedom Award
Military histories often focus on battles campaigns, overlooking the soldiers who fought them. Don N. Hagist’s Noble Volunteers: British Soldiers Who Fought in the American Revolution (Westholme, 2020) takes a look at the red-coated soldiers who formed the ranks of the British Army in the 1770s.
Hagist investigates where British soldiers were from, what they did before joining the army, what motivated them to enlist, how they were trained, how they lived in America on campaign and in garrison, and what became of them after the American Revolution. [Read more…] about Noble Volunteers: British Soldiers in the American Revolution
Roger McCormack, Director of Education at The Bronx County Historical Society will give a talk about the significance of The Bronx in the American Revolution.
This lecture will highlight the Battle of Pell’s Point, the impact of the war on ordinary Bronx farmers and inhabitants, and the general history of the war in the Bronx. [Read more…] about The Bronx Battle of Pell’s Point in the American Revolution
The Fraunces Tavern Museum will host Bruce Ragsdale for a conversation on his book Washington at the Plow: Agriculture and Slavery in the New Nation (Belknap Press, 2021) on Thursday, February 17th. [Read more…] about Washington at the Plow: Agriculture and Slavery (Virtual Event)
The Fraunces Tavern Museum will host “Tavern Tastings: Medicinal Foods,” a virtual presentation set for Thursday, February 8th at 6:30 pm.
In this installment of Tavern Tastings, Jeanne E. Abrams, author of Revolutionary Medicine: The Founding Fathers and Mothers in Sickness and in Health, will join Keeler Tavern Museum & History Center’s Catherine Prescott and Fraunces Tavern Museum’s Mary Tsaltas-Ottomanelli in exploring the history of public health in colonial North America and the role a handful of Founding Fathers and Mothers played in its evolution. [Read more…] about Medicinal Foods & Colonial Public Health (Virtual Program)
The Fraunces Tavern Museum will host “Reevaluating Our Revolutionary French Allies,” a free virtual lecture looking at the French Count de Rochambeau’s army during the American Revolution by Norman Desmarais, set for Thursday, January 13th. [Read more…] about Reevaluating Our Revolutionary French Allies (Virtual Program)
The Fraunces Tavern Museum and Keeler Tavern Museum & History Center have announced Tavern Tastings: Desserts, a virtual program set for Tuesday, January 11th at 6:30 pm.
This program will be led by Fraunces Tavern Museum’s Mary Tsaltas-Ottomanelli and Keeler Tavern Museum & History Center’s Catherine Prescott, who will explore different varieties of desserts from colonial North America, including those created by Samuel Fraunces himself. [Read more…] about Colonial Era Desserts (Virtual Program)