As America prepares to celebrate its 250th anniversary, we are going to hear a lot of familiar stories. We will revisit the Founding Fathers, the great battles, and the documents that changed the course of history.
But here on Wicked Women, we've always been interested in the people history leaves at the edges of the page. The women, the ordinary people, the overlooked figures who lived through extraordinary moments and whose voices can completely transform how we understand the past.
The American Revolution is no exception.
What if this story was never just about thirteen colonies? What if the ideas of liberty, happiness, and justice were being debated by women, Indigenous communities, enslaved people, and people across the globe who were also confronting empire and imagining a different future? What if the Revolution was not inevitable, but uncertain, deeply human, and shaped by countless lives we rarely stop to consider?
Today's guest, historian Sarah Pearsall, invites us to look at this familiar story from an entirely new angle. As we approach America's 250th birthday, perhaps the most meaningful way to honor the past is not simply to repeat the stories we know, but to recover the ones we have forgotten.
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