Fraunces Tavern® Museum will honor the winner of its 2025 Book Award and present its new exhibition, Path to Liberty: The Emergence of a Nation at SRNY's annual Battles of Lexington & Concord commemorative event on April 21st. 

This year marks the 250th Anniversary of the Battle, which took place on April 19, 1775. Path to Liberty officially opens to the public on April 22nd.

Book Award

The Fraunces Tavern® Museum Book Award is presented annually to the author of the best newly published work on the American Revolutionary War that combines original scholarship, insight, and good writing. This year's winner is George Washington’s Momentous Year: Twelve Months that Transformed the Revolution—Vol. 1: The Philadelphia Campaign, July to December 1777 by Gary Ecelbarger*.

Honorable mentions have been awarded to This Fierce People: The Untold Story of America’s Revolutionary War in the South by Alan Pell Crawford and Glorious Lessons: John Trumbull, Painter of the American Revolution by Richard Brookhiser.

Learn More About This Year's Honorees

Exhibition

Fraunces Tavern was a witness to history throughout the Revolutionary War Era. Among the many historic events that took place there, Fraunces Tavern served as a meeting place for the Sons of Liberty, a site for trials that were part of a process that led to the emancipation of thousands of Black Loyalists, and the setting for Washington’s farewell to his officers. Two hundred fifty years later, Fraunces Tavern Museum will honor this history with a new special exhibition: Path to Liberty: The Emergence of a Nation. Commemorating the United States Semiquincentennial, Path to Liberty will be a chronological, multi-year exhibition telling the history of the American Revolution from 1775 to 1783. With a distinctive focus on what occurred in New York State and the surrounding areas, the first segment of the exhibition will focus on the years 1775 to 1776.

Learn More About this Upcoming Exhibition

Event Information & Tickets
(Tickets on sale now through April 18)
Monday, April 21, 2025
6:30pm ~ Reception with brief remarks by our Book Award winner
7:30pm ~ Dinner including full author lecture, Q&A, and award presentation

Reception and Dinner: $190
(for tax purposes, all but $140 per ticket used is tax deductible to the extent allowed by law)

Reception Only: $40
(for tax purposes, all but $20 per ticket used is tax deductible to the extent allowed by law)

Patron:  $100
(Add a patron donation to your event ticket. For tax purposes, all of this amount is tax deductible. Patrons will be listed on the event webpage.)

George Washington’s Momentous Year (Book):  $20
(discounted from the $34.95 retail price; for pick-up at the event)

Purchase Tickets, Books, and make Patron Donations Online

Attendees may also make a check out to “Sons of the Revolution in the State of New York, Inc.” and send it to:
54 Pearl Street, 2nd Floor
New York, NY 10004