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Season 4 of Historically Correct is here from the Empire State! Join Nicholas Ferroni in New York, NY, at Fraunces Tavern, which played an important role before, during, and after the American Revolution. Now a museum, bar, and restaurant located at the corner of Pearl and Broad Streets in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan, the Tavern served as a meeting place for the Sons of Liberty before the war. As the British Army prepared to evacuate New York City, it was the site of proceedings known as "The Birch Trials." Once the British left in 1783, it was the site where General George Washington was honored at a banquet celebrating the British Army evacuation and where Washington bid farewell to his officers. Later, when the United States capital was located in New York City, Fraunces Tavern was rented in 1785-1788 by the Congress of the Confederation to house the departments of Foreign Affairs and War, and offices of the Board of Treasury.