Rising Tides

1765-1775

How the politicized environment of pre- and early-Revolutionary America swept up women

Abigail Adams

Sarah Franklin Bache

Mercy Otis Warren

Revolutionizing Women

1775-1783

The impact of the revolution on women’s political action and gender roles

Abigail Adams

Esther De Berdt Reed

Sarah Franklin Bache

Sarah Livingston Jay

Judith Sargent Murray

Mercy Otis Warren

Republican Motherhood

1783-1800

The importance of women as wives and mothers to the early Republic

Abigail Adams

Sarah Livingston Jay

Judith Sargent Murray