My Dear…

My dear Sister                          Philadelphia August the 28th 1776

I am still in this town and Noe…

My dearest Mamma                         Mount Airy August 21st. 1776

I have the extreme Happiness at last to…

My Dear Sister                         Cambridge January the 31,1776

I have wrote to you several times in hopes that…

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"Black and white print depicting George and Martha Washington standing in snow near a camp fire surrounded by soldiers in dress uniform. Wounded soldiers appear at left. Troops in background stand at attention with raised bayonets behind an American…

"In this cartoon, “Mrs. General Washington” embodies America. She holds a thirteen-strand whip above her head, with which she is about to strike Britannia, the personification of the British Empire. The thirteen strands allude to the thirteen…

In this book, Linda Kerber fully explicated the concept of what she called "Republican Motherhood," which has become one of the most influential analytical lenses through which historians study gender in early America. Kerber conceived Republican…

“[November 30, 1780, Philadelphia]…I found there Mrs. Washington, who had just arrived from Virginia, and was on her way to join her husband, as she does at the end of every campaign. She is about forty or forty-five, rather plump, but fresh and…