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Author : Judith E. Greenberg,Helen Carey McKeever
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 0531112594
Entries from the journal of Mary Titus Post written during the American Revolution are presented with background information to help explain their historical context.
Author : Alex Myers
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781451663358
“A remarkable novel” (The New York Times) about America’s first female soldier, Deborah Sampson Gannett, who ran away from home in 1782, successfully disguised herself as a man, and fought valiantly in the Revolutionary War. At a time when rigid societal norms seemed absolute, Deborah Sampson risked everything in search of something better. Revolutionary, Alex Myers’s richly imagined and carefully researched debut novel, tells the story of a fierce-tempered young woman turned celebrated solider and the remarkable courage, hope, fear, and heartbreak that shaped her odyssey during the birth of a nation. After years of indentured servitude in a sleepy Massachusetts town, Deborah chafes under the oppression of colonial society and cannot always hide her discontent. When a sudden crisis forces her hand, she decides to escape the only way she can, rejecting her place in the community in favor of the perilous unknown. Cutting her hair, binding her chest, and donning men’s clothes stolen from a neighbor, Deborah sheds her name and her home, beginning her identity-shaking transformation into the imaginary “Robert Shurtliff”—a desperate and dangerous masquerade that grows more serious when “Robert” joins the Continental Army. What follows is a journey through America’s War of Independence like no other—an unlikely march through cold winters across bloody battlefields, the nightmare of combat and the cruelty of betrayal, the elation of true love and the tragedy of heartbreak. As The Boston Globe raves, “Revolutionary succeeds on a number of levels, as a great historical-military adventure story, as an exploration of gender identity, and as a page-turning description of the fascinating life of the revolutionary Deborah Sampson.”
Author : Barbara B. Oberg
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780813942605
Building on a quarter century of scholarship following the publication of the groundbreaking Women in the Age of the American Revolution, the engagingly written essays in this volume offer an updated answer to the question, What was life like for women in the era of the American Revolution? The contributors examine how women dealt with years of armed conflict and carried on their daily lives, exploring factors such as age, race, educational background, marital status, social class, and region. For patriot women the Revolution created opportunities—to market goods, find a new social status within the community, or gain power in the family. Those who remained loyal to the Crown, however, often saw their lives diminished—their property confiscated, their businesses failed, or their sense of security shattered. Some essays focus on individuals (Sarah Bache, Phillis Wheatley), while others address the impact of war on social or commercial interactions between men and women. Patriot women in occupied Boston fell in love with and married British soldiers; in Philadelphia women mobilized support for nonimportation; and in several major colonial cities wives took over the family business while their husbands fought. Together, these essays recover what the Revolution meant to and for women.
Author : Karen Cook Bell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108831543
A compelling examination of the ways enslaved women fought for their freedom during and after the Revolutionary War.
Author : Jessica Zychowicz
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781487513757
Superfluous Women tells the unique story of a generation of artists, feminists, and queer activists who emerged in Ukraine after the collapse of the Soviet Union. With a focus on new media, Zychowicz demonstrates how contemporary artist collectives in Ukraine have contested Soviet and Western connotations of feminism to draw attention to a range of human rights issues with global impact. In the book, Zychowicz summarizes and engages with more recent critical scholarship on the role of digital media and virtual environments in concepts of the public sphere. Mapping out several key changes in newly independent Ukraine, she traces the discursive links between distinct eras, marked by mass gatherings on Kyiv’s main square, in order to investigate the deeper shifts driving feminist protest and politics today.
Author : Linda K. Kerber
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2000-11-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807899847
Women of the Republic views the American Revolution through women's eyes. Previous histories have rarely recognized that the battle for independence was also a woman's war. The "women of the army" toiled in army hospitals, kitchens, and laundries. Civilian women were spies, fund raisers, innkeepers, suppliers of food and clothing. Recruiters, whether patriot or tory, found men more willing to join the army when their wives and daughters could be counted on to keep the farms in operation and to resist enchroachment from squatters. "I have Don as much to Carrey on the warr as maney that Sett Now at the healm of government," wrote one impoverished woman, and she was right. Women of the Republic is the result of a seven-year search for women's diaries, letters, and legal records. Achieving a remarkable comprehensiveness, it describes women's participation in the war, evaluates changes in their education in the late eighteenth century, describes the novels and histories women read and wrote, and analyzes their status in law and society. The rhetoric of the Revolution, full of insistence on rights and freedom in opposition to dictatorial masters, posed questions about the position of women in marriage as well as in the polity, but few of the implications of this rhetoric were recognized. How much liberty and equality for women? How much pursuit of happiness? How much justice? When American political theory failed to define a program for the participation of women in the public arena, women themselves had to develop an ideology of female patriotism. They promoted the notion that women could guarantee the continuing health of the republic by nurturing public-spirited sons and husbands. This limited ideology of "Republican Motherhood" is a measure of the political and social conservatism of the Revolution. The subsequent history of women in America is the story of women's efforts to accomplish for themselves what the Revolution did not.
Author : Jeanne Munn Bracken
Publisher : History Compass
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : United States
ISBN : 1878668730
This popular anthology of letters, journals, eyewitness accounts, poetry, and illustrations tells the story of the colonial women and wives of the British and Hessian forces who contributed to the war effort. Most women carried on with their daily tasks at home, but many took action by boycotting British goods or following their men into war -- as cooks, nurses, and care-givers. Some, like Deborah Sampson, disguised themselves as men and joined the battle. The records of Martha Washington, Molly Pitcher, and the Hessian Baroness von Riedesel add insight into the role of women during the Revolution.
Author : Lisa Grunwald,Stephen J. Adler
Publisher : Dial Press Trade Paperback
Page : 833 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2009-01-21
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780307493330
Historical events of the last three centuries come alive through these women’s singular correspondences—often their only form of public expression. In 1775, Rachel Revere tries to send financial aid to her husband, Paul, in a note that is confiscated by the British; First Lady Dolley Madison tells her sister about rescuing George Washington’s portrait during the War of 1812; one week after JFK’s assassination, Jacqueline Kennedy pens a heartfelt letter to Nikita Khrushchev; and on September 12, 2001, a schoolgirl writes a note of thanks to a New York City firefighter, asking him, “Were you afraid?” The letters gathered here also offer fresh insight into the personal milestones in women’s lives. Here is a mid-nineteenth-century missionary describing a mastectomy performed without anesthesia; Marilyn Monroe asking her doctor to spare her ovaries in a handwritten note she taped to her stomach before appendix surgery; an eighteen-year-old telling her mother about her decision to have an abortion the year after Roe v. Wade; and a woman writing to her parents and in-laws about adopting a Chinese baby. With more than 400 letters and over 100 stunning photographs, Women’s Letters is a work of astonishing breadth and scope, and a remarkable testament to the women who lived–and made–history. From the Hardcover edition.
Author : Mark Edward Lender,Garry Wheeler Stone
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 625 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780806155135
Historians have long considered the Battle of Monmouth one of the most complicated engagements of the American Revolution. Fought on Sunday, June 28, 1778, Monmouth was critical to the success of the Revolution. It also marked a decisive turning point in the military career of George Washington. Without the victory at Monmouth Courthouse, Washington's critics might well have marshaled the political strength to replace him as the American commander-in-chief. Authors Mark Edward Lender and Garry Wheeler Stone argue that in political terms, the Battle of Monmouth constituted a pivotal moment in the War for Independence. Viewing the political and military aspects of the campaign as inextricably entwined, this book offers a fresh perspective on Washington’s role in it. Drawing on a wide range of historical sources—many never before used, including archaeological evidence—Lender and Stone disentangle the true story of Monmouth and provide the most complete and accurate account of the battle, including both American and British perspectives. In the course of their account it becomes evident that criticism of Washington’s performance in command was considerably broader and deeper than previously acknowledged. In light of long-standing practical and ideological questions about his vision for the Continental Army and his ability to win the war, the outcome at Monmouth—a hard-fought tactical draw—was politically insufficient for Washington. Lender and Stone show how the general’s partisans, determined that the battle for public opinion would be won in his favor, engineered a propaganda victory for their chief that involved the spectacular court-martial of Major General Charles Lee, the second-ranking officer of the Continental Army. Replete with poignant anecdotes, folkloric incidents, and stories of heroism and combat brutality; filled with behind-the-scenes action and intrigue; and teeming with characters from all walks of life, Fatal Sunday gives us the definitive view of the fateful Battle of Monmouth.
Author : Robert J. Allison
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190225063
Original edition has subtitle: a concise history.
Author : Jeanne Munn Bracken
Publisher : Applewood Books
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11-09
Category : United States
ISBN : 9781932663235
An anthology of letters, journals, eyewitness accounts, poetry, and illustrations which provide insight into the role of women on both sides of the American Revolution.
Author : Brianna Hall
Publisher : Capstone Classroom
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2012-07
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781429692847
"Describes notable women and women's roles in the American Revolution"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Alfred F. Young
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2005-03-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780679761853
In Masquerade, Alfred F. Young scrapes through layers of fiction and myth to uncover the story of Deborah Sampson, a Massachusetts woman who passed as a man and fought as a soldier for seventeen months toward the end of the American Revolution. Deborah Sampson was not the only woman to pose as a male and fight in the war, but she was certainly one of the most successful and celebrated. She managed to fight in combat and earn the respect of her officers and peers, and in later years she toured the country lecturing about her experiences and was partially successful in obtaining veterans’ benefits. Her full story, however, was buried underneath exaggeration and myth (some of which she may have created herself), becoming another sort of masquerade. Young takes the reader with him through his painstaking efforts to reveal the real Deborah Sampson in a work of history that is as spellbinding as the best detective fiction.
Author : Herman Mann
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1866
Category : Soldiers
ISBN : LCCN:06016552
Author : Lydia Minturn Post
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1866
Category : Long Island
ISBN : IND:32000007481593
The journal is likely a hoax, an "embellished, if not a completely fictionalized, diary of a life in the Revolution reconstructed from an antebellum perspective" (Sarah Buck, "An inspired hoax," Long Island historical journal, vol. 7, no. 2, Spring 1995).
