Historic building. Someone asked me before how i moved from American History to jewish history to jewish womens history and back to colonial American History, and it reminded me what really launched me in my career in history was the trip i took many, many years ago as a freshman in college to the new york city historical society. I was given an assignment to do a paper on loyalists in the American Revolution in new york, and, really, to my astonishment, when i went into the society, i asked for some materials, and they handed me a packet of original letters written by loyalists. In those days, no one handed you gloves, that tells you how long ago its been, and i fell in love, the idea that i had papers in my hands that had endured for hundreds of years was really thrilling to me and started a love affair with primary sources and really the colonial and Early National period. Ive gone in a round about way, but 40 years later, i was back to working on american colonial history and combi
And she followed henry through the army camps in the revolution. And ten of her children died. But she reminded henry several times that he was not a commander in his own home. And she was quite firm about that. And all of her children went to fine schools. So i dont have real statements about the importance of education for women, but clearly she would have believed in that. Peggy, her counterpart in philadelphia, who married benedict arnold, lucy becomes a patriot and peggy becomes a spy, and the question is why. She became a coconspirator with benedict much later. When they married, he was a military hero. They were both educated. Peggy came, again, from an affluent, educated family. We know he educated her beyond the french cipher and reading, because she was a teacher. She was a student of politics and finance twice. So we know that education and again, as a mother, and i can only speak to that, because you have to understand her parents burned all her accordance when she w corres
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