Path to Liberty: Orders, Discipline and Daily Life

Purchase tickets to the preview reception on November 13, 2025 here.

Opening to the public: November 14, 2025

Fraunces Tavern Museum’s permanent collection holds numerous treasures of the American Revolutionary era that bring the stories of those who helped achieve American Independence to life. In this exhibition, the Museum will showcase a carefully curated selection of orderly books that detail how officers used daily orders to train, manage, and discipline soldiers, turning ordinary colonists into a trained force capable of challenging the world’s most powerful army.

Path to Liberty: Orders, Discipline and Daily Life is a new special exhibition in the Museum’s Path to Liberty series that already includes Path to Liberty: The Emergence of a Nation and Path to Liberty: The War Reimagined. Path to Liberty is a chronological, multi-year, multi-installment, multi-gallery special exhibition featuring communications documents, artifacts, and works of art from the Museum’s permanent collection telling the history of the American Revolution from 1775 to 1783, with a distinctive focus on what occurred in New York and the surrounding areas. The exhibitions are part of the Museum’s broader Liberty 250® program that commemorates the 250th anniversaries of our Nation’s founding through exhibitions, lectures, programs, and commemorative events. Liberty 250® launched in April 2025 with the commemoration of the Battles of Lexington and Concord and the opening of our Path to Liberty series.