The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History

	Additional resources for this issue of History Now General Resources Lockean Liberalism Unruly Americans Mercy Otis Warren Native Americans Camp Followers American Diplomacy

Belonging to the Army: Camp Followers and Community during the American Revolution. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1996.

“Bearing Arms. Bearing Burdens: Women Warriors. Camp Followers. and Home-Front Heroines of the American Revolution” in Gender, War, and Politics: The Wars of Revolution and Liberation—Transatlantic Perspectives, 1775-1820. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, forthcoming 2009.

These are general surveys on the role of women in the Revolution:

Gunderson, Joan R. To Be Useful to the World: Women in Revolutionary America. 1740-1790. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1996.

Berkin, Carol. Revolutionary Mothers: Women in the Struggle for America’s Independence. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005.

Norton, Mary Beth. Liberty’s Daughters: The Revolutionary Experience of American Women, 1750-1800. Boston: Little. Brown. and Co., 1980.

Kerber, Linda K. Women of the Republic: Intellect and Ideology in Revolutionary America. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1980.

These scholars examine various aspects of the lives of women who moved with the Continental Army in various capacities:

Bodle, Wayne. The Valley Forge Winter: Civilians and Soldiers in War. University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2002.

Loane. Nancy K. Following the Drum: Women at the Valley Forge Encampment. Washington. D.C.: Potomac Books, 2009.

While these provide background on what the home front was like for American women during the war:

Heidler. David S. Heidler and Jeanne T. eds. Daily Lives of Civilians in Wartime Early America: From the Colonial Era to the Civil War. Westport. CT: Greenwood Press, 2007.

Resch, John and Walter Sargent, eds. War and Society in the American Revolution: Mobilization and Home Fronts. Dekalb: Northern Illinois University Press. 2007.

These books will help you and your students discuss the fascinating question of the treatment of Revolutionary women in books for children:

Children’s books:

Smith, Bonnie G. The Gender of History: Men, Women, and Historical Practice. Cambridge. MA: Harvard University Press, 1998. This provides a good analysis of changing treatment of the topic over the centuries.

Ellet, Elizabeth. The Women of the American Revolution. 2 vols.. 1848-49. Reprint. Williamstown. MA: Corner House, 1980. This reprint provides you with a classic example of the representation of the subject in 19th century children’s books.

These are examples of more recent books on the subject:

Burgen, Michael. Great Women of the American Revolution. Minneapolis: Compass Point Books, 2005.

Clyne, Patricia Edwards. Patriots in Petticoats. New York: Dodd. Mead & Co. 1976.

Furbee, Mary R. Women of the American Revolution. San Diego: Lucent Books, 1999.

Kneib, Martha. Women Soldiers, Spies, and Patriots of the American Revolution. New York: The Rosen Publishing Group. Inc., 2004.

Silcox-Jarrett, Diane. Heroines of the American Revolution: America’s Founding Mothers. Chapel Hill: Green Angel Press, 1998. .

Zeinert, Karen Zeinert. Those Remarkable Women of the American Revolution. Brookfield. CT: The Millbrook Press, 1996.

I think you’ll enjoy Al Young’s study of the life of one of the most famous women in the Revolutionary Army:

Young, Alfred F. Masquerade: The Life and Times of Deborah Sampson. Continental Soldier. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004.

Here are recent studies of Nathanael Greene to help you understand the complicated issues of supplying the Revolutionary Army:

Carbone. Gerald M. Nathanael Greene: A Biography of the American Revolution. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.

Golway, Terry. Washington's General: Nathanael Greene and the Triumph of the American Revolution. New York: H. Holt, 2005.

Risch, Erna. Supplying Washington’s Army. Washington. D.C.: Center of Military History. US Army, 1981.

Internet Resources

I’m afraid that the Wikipedia entry on Women in the Revolution isn’t very good – the encyclopedia’s editors have flagged it for improvement

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_the_American_Revolution

The brief discussion the “Republican Mother” concept, though, is quite acceptable:

Wikipedia has good basic summary of concept of “Republican Mother:”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_motherhood

Overall, I think that you’ll find about.com’s page of links more helpful:

http://womenshistory.about.com/od/waramrevolution/
Women_and_the_American_Revolution.htm

The National Archives have considerately mounted on the Web this article from the Summer 1999 issue of their magazine Prologue:

Teipe, Emily J. “Will the Real Molly Pitcher Please Stand Up?”

http://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/1999/summer/pitcher.html

And here’s an online sketch of Catharine Littlefield Greene:

http://www.revolutionarywararchives.org/greenecaty.html

You’ll find the greatest body of online material for Martha Washington, of course. Here’s Mount “Lady Washington’s” Webpage at Mount Vernon:

http://www.mountvernon.org/learn/meet_george/index.cfm/ss/90/

Here you’ll find the full text of Ellet’s Women of the American Revolution:

http://americanrevolution.org/women/women.html

One of the finest documentary resources for the life of an American patriot woman on the home front during the Revolution is the wartime letters of Abigail Adams. Here’ll I refer you to the link I’ve provided in my resources for the Mercy Warren essay in this issue.