Revolutionary Tours NYC

02/10/2026

From The Magical City: George Morrison’s New York at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

11/03/2025

Fall colors in the northern end of Central Park.

08/11/2025

https://youtu.be/oSXUWBgcids?si=ilpugp8fBKEZ5g_j&t=60
On The Tonight Show, Jimmy Fallon mentioned Bruce by name to Lin-Manuel Miranda — because he took my Hamilton & Washington walking tour. Check out the video!

Lin-Manuel Miranda talks about the 10th anniversary of Hamilton on Broadway and some of his most memorable celebrity interactions while performing before ann...

05/08/2025

Henry Ward Beecher and the Plymouth Church. Explore the history of this historic 1849 church and the role of Henry Ward Beecher, “the Most Famous Man in America,” and the Underground Railroad on the “Brooklyn Revolution” walking tour!

04/25/2025

Central Park Conservatory Garden in Bloom! See I t on the Secret Places of Central Park tour.

03/27/2025

In March 1783, as the Revolutionary War drew to a close, George Washington drafted a letter from Newburgh, New York to his trusted associate Alexander Hamilton that revealed the depth of his vision for the newly independent United States. This letter reflects not only Washington’s happiness at the...

12/15/2024

New York City Hall (Joseph-François Mangin and John McComb Jr., 1812)

11/25/2024

Thanksgiving Proclamation from George Washington, New York City, 1789. Thanksgiving first became a holiday under Washington’s administration in New York City on November 26, 1789 with his official proclamation. City of New York, October 3, 1789.

“Whereas it is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and humbly to implore his protection and favor, and Whereas both Houses of Congress have by their joint Committee requested me “to recommend to the People of the United States a day of public thanks-giving and prayer to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many signal favors of Almighty God, especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to establish a form of government for their safety and happiness.
Now therefore I do recommend and assign Thursday the 26th. day of November next to be devoted by the People of these States to the service of that great and glorious Being, who is the beneficent Author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be. That we may then all unite in rendering unto him our sincere and humble thanks, for his kind care and protection of the People of this country previous to their becoming a Nation, for the signal and manifold mercies, and the favorable interpositions of his providence, which we experienced in the course and conclusion of the late war, for the great degree of tranquillity, union, and plenty, which we have since enjoyed, for the peaceable and rational manner in which we have been enabled to establish constitutions of government for our safety and happiness, and particularly the national One now lately instituted, for the civil and religious liberty with which we are blessed, and the means we have of acquiring and diffusing useful knowledge and in general for all the great and various favors which he hath been pleased to confer upon us...”

07/05/2024

July 9, 1776, Pulling Down the Statue of King George III, (in Bowling Green Park in New York City), artist Johannes Adam Simon Oertel, 1852-1853

06/30/2024

City Hall in New York City, completed 1812,
John McComb Jr. and Joseph-François Mangin

06/06/2024

Downing Park named after the great American landscape gardener Andrew Jackson Downing, who mentored Calvert Vaux and influenced Frederick Law Olmsted, co-designers of Central Park, Prospect Park, Buffalo’s park system, and many other public parks. Downing Park was Olmsted and Vaux’s last collaboration, a tribute to Downing in his hometown. They provided the plans in 1889, with the park opening in 1897.