#421 Evacuation Day: Forgotten Holiday of the American Revolution

The Bowery Boys: New York City History

Tom Meyers

Society & Culture, History, Documentary, Places & Travel

4.8 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 22 November 2023

⏱️ 65 minutes

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For decades New Yorkers celebrated Evacuation Day every November 25, a holiday marking the 1783 departure of British forces from the city they had occupied for several years during the Revolutionary War. So where did it go?

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0:14.6	shaped America.
0:16.0	Although Jimmy Carter left the White House in January of 1981, his career in public service was far
0:22.4	from over.
0:23.2	Listen to the unfinished presidency, Jimmy Carter's journey beyond the White House,
0:28.4	as award-winning historian Douglas Brinkley explores the lessons of Carter's life and legacy.
0:35.2	And in the harsh New England winter of 1692, a minister's daughter began to scream and convulse
0:42.3	as if possessed by a demonic spirit.
0:45.2	This incident marked the beginning of a year-long panic in Salem, Massachusetts.
0:50.7	Pulitzer Prize-winning author Stacey Schiff
0:52.7	uncovers the origins of this phenomenon in The Witches, Salem, 1692.
0:58.9	Get for the ages wherever you get your podcasts.
1:07.0	The Bowery Boys episode 421. Evacuation Day,
1:09.0	the forgotten holiday of the American Revolution.
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1:27.0	hi there welcome to the bowery boys this is Greg Young and this is Tom Myers.
1:32.7	And today we're telling a sort of holiday story about New York City and the Revolutionary War.
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