250 years ago on March 31, 1776 Abigail Adams wrote a letter to her husband John.
"in the new Code of Laws which I suppose it will be necessary for you to make I desire you would Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands. Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could. If particuliar care and attention is not paid to the Ladies we are determined to foment a Rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any Laws in which we have no voice, or Representation."
March is Women’s History Month and we plan to celebrate it with a program on Revolutionary Women. Please join cultureNOW, the Lower Manhattan Historical Association, and the Massachusetts Historical Society for a virtual symposium.
Abigail Adams and Political Life in Massachusetts
Moderator: Sara Georgini, Series Editor, The Papers of John Adams, Massachusetts Historical Society
Women and Political Participation in Revolutionary Virginia
Cassandra Good, Associate Professor of History, Marymount University
Martha Washington and the American Revolution
Kathryn Gehred, Co-Editor of The Papers of Martha Washington
Liss, A New Founding Figure
Claire Bellerjeau, Founder and President of Remember Liss
Loyalist Women in British-Occupied New York
Dr. Charlene M. Boyer Lewis, Larry J. Bell Distinguished Chair in American History, Kalamazoo College
Molly Brant, the First Lady of British Native America
Helena Yoo-Roth, Barra Postdoctoral Fellow, The McNeil Center for Early American Studies, University of Pennsylvania