The Founding MOTHERS: Women of the American Revolution

Paul Revere gets all the glory, but he wasn't the only one riding through the night to save the American Revolution. This Fourth of July, Delaney and Kendyl are spilling the tea on the women history left out of the story: 16-year-old Sybil Ludington, who rode twice as far as Paul Revere through a rainstorm to warn the Continental Army; Deborah Sampson, who disguised herself as a man to fight in combat and removed a musket ball from her own leg; and Abigail Adams, the original "Mrs. President," who ran the family finances, advised a president, and told her husband to "remember the ladies." In honor of the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, we're giving America's founding mothers the credit — and the chaos — they deserve. Happy Fourth of July, besties.Sources:Sybil Ludington:Hunt, Paula D. "Sybil Ludington, the Female Paul Revere: The Making of a Revolutionary War Heroine." The New England Quarterly 88, no. 2 (2015): 187–222. http://www.jstor.org/stable/24718670American Battlefield Trust. "Sybil Ludington." https://www.battlefields.org/learn/biographies/sybil-ludingtonSmithsonian Magazine. "Did the Midnight Ride of Sibyl Ludington Ever Happen?" March 2022. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/did-midnight-ride-sibyl-ludington-ever-happen-180979557/Deborah Sampson:Young, Alfred F. Masquerade: The Life and Times of Deborah Sampson, Continental Soldier. New York: Vintage Books, 2004. [Definitive scholarly biography]Mann, Herman. The Female Review: Life of Deborah Sampson, the Female Soldier in the War of Revolution. 1797. [Primary source, published during her lifetime]Massachusetts Historical Society. Letter from Paul Revere to William Eustis, February 20, 1804. https://www.masshist.org/database/326National Women’s History Museum. "Deborah Sampson." Michals, Debra. 2015. https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/deborah-sampsonMuseum of the American Revolution. "Biography of Deborah Sampson." https://www.amrevmuseum.org/collection/biography-of-deborah-sampsonGeorge Washington’s Mount Vernon. "Deborah Sampson." https://www.mountvernon.org/library/digitalhistory/digital-encyclopedia/article/deborah-sampsonAmerican Battlefield Trust. "Deborah Sampson." https://www.battlefields.org/learn/biographies/deborah-sampsonPaul Revere House. "Quitting The Male Habit: Paul Revere and Deborah Sampson’s Appeal for a Military Pension." https://www.paulreverehouse.org/quitting-the-male-habit-paul-revere-and-deborah-sampsons-appeal-for-a-military-pension/Abigail Adams:Shields, David S. and Fredrika J. Teute. "The Court of Abigail Adams." Journal of the Early Republic 35, no. 2 (2015): 227–35. http://www.jstor.org/stable/24486730Britannica. "Abigail Adams." https://www.britannica.com/biography/Abigail-AdamsMiller Center. "Abigail Adams." https://millercenter.org/president/adams/adams-1797-abigail-firstladyNational Women’s History Museum. "Abigail Smith Adams." https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/abigail-adams Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.