Location: Free Virtual Symposium

It Happened HERE: Remember the Ladies

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 husbands. Remember, all Men would be tyrants if they could. If particular 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.”

Please join cultureNOW, the Lower Manhattan Historical Association, the Massachusetts Historical Society, and Fraunces Tavern Museum for a virtual symposium on Women in the Revolutionary Era.

Moderator:
Abigail Adams & Political Life in Massachusetts
Sara Georgini, PhD
Series Editor, The Papers of John Adams, Massachusetts Historical Society

Speakers:
Women and Political Participation in Revolutionary Virginia
Cassandra Good, PhD
Associate Professor of History, Marymount University

Martha Washington and the American Revolution
Kathryn Gehred,
Media Editor at Encyclopedia Virginia
Formerly, Co-Editor of The Papers of Martha Washington

Liss, A Founding Figure
Claire Bellerjeau
Founder and President of Remember Liss

Loyalist Women in British-Occupied New York
Charlene M. Boyer Lewis, PhD,
Larry J. Bell Distinguished Chair in American History
Kalamazoo College

Molly Brant, the First Lady of British Native America
Helena Yoo-Roth, PhD
Barra Postdoctoral Fellow, The McNeil Center for Early American Studies
University of Pennsylvania

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