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 the 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." March is Women’s History Month and we plan to celebrate it with a program on Revolutionary Women. Please join cultureNOW, the Lower Manhattan Historical Association, the Massachusetts Historical Society, and Fraunces Tavern® Museum for a virtual symposium.

Abigail Adams and Political Life in Massachusetts

Moderator: Sara Georgini PhD, Series Editor, The Papers of John Adams, Massachusetts Historical Society

Women and Political Participation in Revolutionary Virginia

Cassandra Good PhD, Associate Professor of History, Marymount University

Loyalist Women in British-Occupied New York

Charlene M. Boyer Lewis PhD, Larry J. Bell Distinguished Chair in American History, Kalamazoo College

Martha Washington and the American Revolution

Kathryn Gehred, Co-Editor of The Papers of Martha Washington

Liss, A New Founding Figure

Claire Bellerjeau, Founder and President of Remember Liss

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