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Revolutionary Mothers: Women in the Struggle for America’s Independence
Think the American Revolution was just a bunch of guys shouting 'Give me liberty or give me death'? Think again. Women weren’t just on the sidelines knitting or fainting in parlors—they were running farms, spying, fighting, and flipping the script on what it meant to be a patriot. Carol Berkin’s "Revolutionary Mothers" pulls back the curtain on the unsung heroines who made the revolution tick, often at great personal risk and with zero fanfare.
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