Posts Tagged ‘Womens History’

Everyone knows the name, Paul Revere. The silversmith. The patriot. The rider. His midnight gallop through the Massachusetts countryside on April 18, 1775, warning that the British were marching, is one of the most enduring stories in American history. But on that same night, in the family’s modest home at 19 North Square in Boston’s…

Sarah Franklin Bache was born on September 11, 1743, in Philadelphia, then one of the most populous and politically active cities in the American colonies. As the daughter of Benjamin Franklin and Deborah Read Franklin, she grew up in an environment immersed in civic discussion, print culture, and public affairs. Her father’s roles — as…

Among the enduring figures of the American Revolution, few have captured the public imagination quite like “Molly Pitcher.” Long celebrated as the brave woman who carried water to weary soldiers before stepping in to help fire a cannon during battle, Molly Pitcher became a symbol of courage, resilience, and the overlooked contributions of women during…

In the spring of 1777, two years into a Revolution still very much in doubt, a sixteen-year-old girl from the Hudson Valley is said to have mounted her horse in a driving rainstorm and ridden forty miles through the night — twice the distance of Paul Revere’s famous ride — to rouse her father’s militia…