Reviews

"Carol Berkin has merged the craft of the skilled historian and the
sensitivity of a master storyteller with her sensibilities as a
pioneering scholar of women to produce the best narrative of how women
of diverse backgrounds experienced the American Revolution."
--Edith Gelles, author of "Portia: The World of Abigail Adams" Revolutionary Mothers is an accessible, lively blend of great story-telling and recent
scholarship, the most comprehensive study yet published of women in the American
Revolution. Readers of all descriptions will enjoy and learn from it.
--Mary Beth Norton, author of "In the Devil's Snare: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692
"
"Revolutionary Mothers is vintage Carol Berkin, incisive, thoughtful and spiced with
vivid anecdotes that add another dimension to the narrative. Don't miss it."
--Thomas Fleming, author of "Liberty! The American Revolution
""Revolutionary Mothers is a treat to read. Not only is Carol Berkin a skillful writer, but she
has placed women squarely at the center of the independence movement. By showing the
different roles women played, she moves the battlefield to wherever women were forced to
make choices and employ their talents. Elite, poor, Euro, Native, and African American
women collide in Berkin's book, as do the rebels and loyalists who were once friends and
neighbors. A valuable and readable book."
--Elaine Crane, author of "Ebb Tide in New England: Women, Seaports, and Social Change,
1630-1800"

" Carol Berkin has merged the craft of the skilled historian and the
sensitivity of a master storyteller with her sensibilities as a
pioneering scholar of women to produce the best narrative of how women
of diverse backgrounds experienced the American Revolution."
--Edith Gelles, author of "Portia: The World of Abigail Adams" Revolutionary Mothers is an accessible, lively blend of great story-telling and recent
scholarship, the most comprehensive study yet published of women in the American
Revolution. Readers of all descriptions will enjoy and learn from it.
--Mary Beth Norton, author of "In the Devil' s Snare: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692
"
" Revolutionary Mothers is vintage Carol Berkin, incisive, thoughtful and spiced with
vivid anecdotes that add another dimension to the narrative. Don't miss it."
--Thomas Fleming, author of "Liberty! The American Revolution
"" Revolutionary Mothers is a treat to read. Not only is Carol Berkin a skillful writer, but she
has placed women squarely at the center of the independence movement. By showing the
different roles women played, she moves the battlefield to wherever women were forced to
make choices and employ their talents. Elite, poor, Euro, Native, and African American
women collide in Berkin's book, as do the rebels and loyalists who were once friends and
neighbors. A valuable and readable book."
--Elaine Crane, author of "Ebb Tide in New England: Women, Seaports, and Social Change,
1630-1800"