The City at the Heart of the American Revolution
Welcome to NYC Revolutionary Trail!
A multimedia self-guided walking tour, presented by the Gotham Center for New York City History
Library
Nerd out with our Library and test your knowledge of the American Revolution. This extended material, available for each stop, offers four times as much content as the Walking Tour, including text, imagery, and source material. Plus, you’ll need it for our scavenger hunt!
Walking Tour
Discover the city at the heart of the American Revolution in this audio-narrated tour, featuring site information, character profiles, video, and more. Visit all sixteen locations in lower Manhattan for the full experience. Or curate the journey by picking your own destinations, focusing on a single era, or using the Library for a more self-directed trip.
Classroom
Are you a teacher or an educator?
We have brief and extensive lesson plans for middle and high schoolers, as well as experiences for college-level students. These modules can be used in-class or combined with trips that bring our material to life, and let students design their own adventure.
Our Vision
This website is the foundation of a larger, ongoing project.
The Gotham Center is moving to expand beyond this core tour of lower Manhattan into the wider metropolitan region, and to place this content onto a web-based smartphone app to provide a far more immersive and interactive experience, with various forms of “extended reality” and other media. The idea is to recreate colonial New York in virtual space and to organize existing historic sites into a networked whole before the start of the American Revolution’s 250th anniversary.
Will you support the cause?
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