Women in the American Revolution
By: compiled by Carol Berkin.
Contributors: Berkin, Carol.
Series: Jackdaw -- no. A31; Jackdaw (New York, N.Y.) -- no. A31.
Publisher: Golden Owl Pub.; Jackdaw Pub.
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Amawalk, N.Y; London
Language: eng
Subjects: United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Women -- Sources.
Description: A collection of classroom study materials which interpret the roles of women during the Revolution.
Notes: Reprint. Originally published: New York: Grossman, 1975.

Portfolio includes 1 introductory sheet ([4] p.), 10 reproductions of documents, 5 explanatory broadsheets, 1 sheet of transcripts or translations of documents, and 1 study guide with reproducible masters.

Includes bibliographical references on introductory sheet.
Table of contents: value: Exhibits: 1. An installment of Mercy Warren's play The Defeat from the Boston Gazette, 19 July 1773; value: 2. "Ode to George Washington", a poem by Phillis Wheatley, from the April 1776 issue of Pennsylvania Magazine; value: 3. "Advertisement for Spinners" from the Pennsylvania Packet, 7 August 1775; value: 4. "A new touch on the times well adapted to the distressing situation of every sea-port town," a broadside, 1779; value: 5. "A letter from a lady in Philadelphia to her friend in this place," from the Boston Independent Chronicle, 27 July 1780; value: 6. An excerpt from the Marquis of Chastellux's Voyages, published in Paris in 1786, and a translation; value: 7. General orders of George Washington, 4 August 1777, and a transcript; value: 8. A letter from Hannah Winthrop to Mercy Warren, 11 November 1777, and a transcript; value: 9. "Pension for Margaret Corbin" from the Journal of the Continental Congress, 6 July 1779, and a transcript; value: 10. A letter from Esther Sewall to her sister-in-law Katy Quincy, 29 March 1778, and a transcript.; value: Broadsheets: I. Women in politics and propaganda; value: II. The home front war; value: III. Civilian heroines and army wives; value: IV. Loyalist women and exile; value: V. Why no women's rights after the Revolution?