How did the Revolution and living through the experience of war impact New York’s women—and how did women impact the Revolution in New York and beyond?
Despite being written out of the story of the American Revolution and nation’s founding, women left indelible marks on both the fight for—and against—US Independence, and on the building blocks of the new nation. The Jean Margo Reid Center for Women’s History marks the United States’ semiquincentennial with a new exhibition that asks: How did the Revolution and living through the experience of war impact New York’s women—and how did women impact the Revolution in New York and beyond?
Subverting expectations about women’s involvement in the fight for independence, the exhibition marshalls The Historical's Museum and Patricia D. Klingenstein Library collections to break new narrative ground, including love letters, poems, petitions and military correspondence, archeological objects, paintings, household objects, and more.