Created as part of the Union League’s America250 effort, The Path of Patriots is a self-guided audio tour, with an optional walking route, that moves through the city at street level. You can walk it block by block, or listen later as a podcast, but either way, it asks you to slow down and notice addresses that once carried real weight during the Civil War.

These stops are not monuments in the traditional sense. They are former newspaper offices, banks, churches, hospitals, enlistment halls, and early clubhouses. During the 1860s, these were working places, full of people making decisions in real time about the future of the country.