Jim Kaplan invites us to his next two walking tours:

ALL NIGHT JULY 4TH REVOLUTIONARY WAR WALKING TOUR—July 4, 2 a.m.-6 a.m. This will be the 10th year of sponsorship by the Fraunces Tavern Museum for this tour of Lower Manhattan sites associated with the Revolutionary War, including Thomas Paine Park, New York City Hall and the statue of Nathan Hale, St. Paul’s Chapel, Fraunces Tavern, and as always the highlight of the tour, the 5 a.m. visit to the unmarked grave of General Horatio Gates in Trinity Church graveyard.

This year my daughter Olivia and I have new material on Nathan Hale, about whom I have recently written a 2800 word article for the historian’s newsletter of the New York Chapter of the DAR (available upon request).

As in prior years, my daughter and I will be giving  a pretour lunch lecture at the Fraunces Tavern museum on Nathan Hale, the spy who did not become an American hero until more than 50 years after his death. We expect to present new theories as to how and why Hale became an American hero. Also note: this may be the last year that I will be able to talk about the completely unmarked grave of General Gates, because there is now an effort by the  New York State DAR with my assistance (around the anniversary of the battle of Saratoga) in October to place a plaque to him in Trinity Church graveyard.

WALL STREET: THE GREAT CRASHES—October 27, 2012, 48 Wall Street. This year will mark the 25th year that Richard M. Warshauer and I will give our annual tour sponsored by the American Museum of Finance (usually on the Saturday closest to October 29) on the history of Wall Street. Last year Richard and I gave this tour in a driving snowstorm. This year I hope to add new material to the section on recovery from the depression on Frances Perkins, and perhaps to mention somewhat more fully Bruce Wasserstein (about whom I wrote an article in the Museum’s Financial History Magazine last year). By the time of the tour, I hope the issue with my article on Frances Perkins will be out. Previously I wrote articles for the magazine on Henry Hudson and Joseph and Jesse Seligman, who are figures also discussed extensively on the tour.