CBH Talk | The Battle of Brooklyn Revisited: A Screening and Conversation
Screening of The Brave Man documentary followed by discussion on the largest American Revolution battle fought across what is now Brooklyn.
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The largest battle of the American Revolution took place in what is now Brooklyn—a fact most New Yorkers don't know. This evening pairs a film with the historians who have spent careers getting the story right.
In 1776, the Battle of Brooklyn—the largest battle of the American Revolution—was fought across the terrain that is now the borough. The outcome nearly ended the Continental Army before the war had properly begun. The Center for Brooklyn History marks the battle’s anniversary with a screening of The Brave Man, a documentary exploring this pivotal moment, followed by a moderated discussion on what the battle meant and what it still means.
The conversation brings together Joseph M. McCarthy, the filmmaker behind the documentary and a board member of The Old Stone House of Brooklyn (the site of a critical last stand in the battle), and Barnet Schecter, independent historian and author of The Battle for New York. The discussion situates the film within the exhibition The Battle of Brooklyn: Fought and Remembered, currently on view at the Center.
Dominique Jean-Louis, Chief Historian at the Center for Brooklyn History, moderates. Free and open to the public.