Sybil Ludington, the Female Paul Revere: The Making of a Revolutionary War Heroine

2015/05/07 by Paula D. Hunt · 2 citations
Social Sciences · Business, Management and Accounting · #American Constitutional Law and Politics #American History and Culture

paper · pdf · doi:10.1162/tneq_a_00452

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Abstract

Sybil Ludington, “the female Paul Revere,” has proven to be a remarkably protean figure in the memory of and contestation over the American Revolution. Her place in history has shifted in response to changing currents in culture and politics, demonstrating the ways in which the past is made and remade to satisfy contemporary audiences.

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• Anna Hyatt Huntington [wikipedia]
• Women in the American Revolution [wikipedia]

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