In this episode of The Gotham Center podcast “Sites and Sounds,” Michael Hattem talks about the Prison Ship Martyrs Monument in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, where the remains of nearly eleven thousand soldiers are buried, captives of the British who often died from unspeakable treatment and torture during the American Revolution.

New York was central to the military strategy of both the patriots and loyalists, and the scene of that war’s most important battle. Yet the city is seldom remembered as a major stage in our nation’s struggle for independence. Here, Hattem -- a visiting professor of history at Knox College, finishing a book on the surprisingly tense debates over popular memory of the Revolution during the early years of the republic -- explains why.

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