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Revisiting Restoration
Women’s economic labor was essential to state function.
by
Jonah Estess
via
Commonplace
on
March 1, 2023
Early American Women Unmasked
The masks owned by early American women and even children were no less symbolic than modern masks in terms of practical use, commodification, or controversy.
by
Philippe Halbert
via
The Junto
on
May 5, 2020
The Woolen Shoes That Made Revolutionary-Era Women Feel Patriotic
Calamanco footwear was sturdy, egalitarian, and made in the U.S.A.
by
Kimberly S. Alexander
via
What It Means to Be American
on
November 7, 2019
Women in Jamestown and Early Virginia
A conversation with the curator of an exhibit about the oft-overlooked lives of women in early colonial Virginia.
by
Katherine Egner Gruber
,
Philippe Halbert
via
The Junto
on
May 20, 2019
Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, Jamestown Women
A new British television series, Jamestown, set off a minor public debate about just how rebellious women could be in the past.
by
Tom Cutterham
via
The Junto
on
May 9, 2017
How a Curator at the Museum of the American Revolution Solved a Nearly 250-Year-Old Art Mystery
An eye-witness depiction of the Continental Army passing through Philadelphia hung in a New York apartment for decades.
by
Rosa Cartagena
via
Philadelphia Inquirer
on
March 26, 2024
The Brown Brothers Had a Sister
Women’s work is often hidden or marginal within historical records that were meant to show men’s economic and political lives.
by
Karin Wulf
via
Commonplace
on
December 5, 2023
"If America Doesn't Become America": Outlander and the American Revolution
"Outlander" challenges the myth of American exceptionalism at the root of much U.S. popular culture.
by
Michelle Orihel
via
Age of Revolutions
on
July 3, 2023
partner
Discarding Legal Precedent to Control Women's Reproductive Rights is Rooted in Colonial Slavery
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito made reference to the legal opinions of English jurist Henry de Bracton, foreshadowing the court overturning Roe v. Wade.
by
Clyde W. Ford
via
HNN
on
June 5, 2022
What Parents Did Before Baby Formula
The shortage is a calamity—not a victory for breastfeeding.
by
Carla Cevasco
via
The Atlantic
on
May 18, 2022
partner
Whose Breast is Best?: "Mom-shaming" in the British Atlantic World
Claims that mothers lacking formula should just breastfeed repeats a centuries-old mistake.
by
Laura Earls
via
Made By History
on
May 18, 2022
Ben Franklin Put an Abortion Recipe in His Math Textbook
To colonial Americans, termination was as normal as the ABCs and 123s.
by
Molly Farrell
via
Slate
on
May 5, 2022
Fighting the American Revolution
An interview with Woody Holton on his new book, "Liberty is Sweet."
by
Woody Holton
,
Tom Cutterham
via
Age of Revolutions
on
April 11, 2022
The Many American Revolutions
Woody Holton’s "Liberty is Sweet" charts not only the contest with Great Britain over “home rule” but also the internal struggle over who should rule at home.
by
Eric Foner
via
The Nation
on
April 4, 2022
partner
The Women in Ben Franklin's Life Tell a Fuller Story of the Founder
Uncovering the fallacy of his iconic image as a man ruled by solely by reason and logic.
by
Nancy Rubin Stuart
via
HNN
on
March 27, 2022
American Captivity
The captivity narrative as creation myth.
by
Ed Simon
via
The Hedgehog Review
on
March 1, 2022
Mary Ball Washington, George’s Single Mother, Often Gets Overlooked – but she's Well Worth Saluting
Martha Saxton dives into the life of the mother of George Washington and how historians have misrepresented her in the past.
by
Martha Saxon
via
The Conversation
on
May 7, 2021
Molly Pitcher, the Most Famous American Hero Who Never Existed
Americans don't need to rely on legends to tell the stories of women in the Revolution.
by
Cassandra A. Good
via
Smithsonian
on
March 17, 2021
partner
What We Get Wrong About Ben Franklin’s ‘A Republic, If You Can Keep It’
Erasing the women of the founding era makes it harder to see women as leaders today.
by
Zara Anishanslin
via
Made By History
on
October 29, 2019
original
Snails, Hedgehog Heads and Stale Beer
A peek inside premodern cookbooks.
by
Benjamin Breen
on
December 15, 2017
partner
No, There Is No Witch Hunt Against Powerful Men
They're the hunters, not the hunted.
by
Michelle D. Brock
via
Made By History
on
October 18, 2017
The Single Greatest Witch Hunt in American History, for Real
Wild accusations, alternative facts, special prosecutors—the Salem witch trials of 1692 had it all.
by
Stacy Schiff
via
The New Yorker
on
May 18, 2017
partner
Homespun Wisdom
A discussion of the patriotic attempt to spurn European fashion and spin cloth at home in the time leading up to the Revolutionary War.
via
BackStory
on
August 28, 2015
Bringing Rapes to Court
How sexual assault victims in colonial America navigated a legal system that was enormously stacked against them.
by
Sharon Block
via
Commonplace
on
April 1, 2003
The Witches of Springfield
Before Salem, this small town succumbed to the witch-hunting fever.
by
Katrina Gulliver
via
Law & Liberty
on
December 16, 2022
The Historical Truth About Women Burned at the Stake in America? Most Were Black.
Most Americans probably don’t know this piece of Black history. But they should.
by
Kali Nicole Gross
via
Washington Post
on
February 25, 2022
Sluts and the Founders
Understanding the meaning of the word "slut" in the Founders' vocabulary.
by
Alexis Coe
via
Study Marry Kill
on
January 26, 2022
How to Tell the Thanksgiving Story on Its 400th Anniversary
Scholars are unraveling the myths surrounding the 1621 feast, which found the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag cementing a newly established alliance.
by
David Kindy
via
Smithsonian
on
November 23, 2021
Bacon's Rebellion: My Pitch
A drama about an interracial uprising in colonial Virginia.
by
William Hogeland
via
Hogeland's Bad History
on
June 15, 2021
partner
The Revolutions
Ed Ayers visits public historians in Boston and Philadelphia and explores what “freedom” meant to those outside the halls of power in the Revolutionary era.
via
Future Of America's Past
on
March 16, 2020
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