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Influential Women in American History Editing Workshop

Only 17% of biographies on Wikipedia are about women. Help us change that! Join Wikimedia DC and the Daughters of the American Revolution for a Women's History Month editing workshop. Edit Wikipedia and help to improve or create articles about influential women in American history. New editors are welcome. Training will be provided.

This event is free and open to the public. Please bring a laptop and photo ID. Registration is required. Lunch will be provided.

When

Saturday, March 24, 2018 11:00AM-3:00PM

Where

Daughters of the American Revolution National Headquarters
1776 D St NW
Washington, DC 20006

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Coordination[edit]

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Presentation[edit]

Daughters of the American Revolution Wikipedia Editing Workshop 2018

Policies, Quick Tips and Other Wikimedia Resources[edit]

Policies

Your first article

Tips

Wikimedia and other related projects

Suggested Work List[edit]

Women of the American Revolution[edit]

* "Memorial honoring the patriotic dead, especially Hannah White Arnett (1733-1823) - New Jersey Women's History". New Jersey Women's History.
* Appleby, Joyce, Eileen K. Cheng, and Joanne L. Goodwin. 2002. Encyclopedia of women in American history. Volume I, Volume I. Armonk, New York: Sharpe Reference
  • Berkin, Carol. 2006. Revolutionary mothers: women in the struggle for America's independence.
  • Boyer, Paul S., Edward T. James, and Janet Wilson James. 2012. Notable American women, 1607-1950 a biographical dictionary. Cambridge, Mass: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.
  • Claghorn, Charles Eugene. 1992. Women Patriots of the American Revolution: Biographical Dictionary. Scarecrow P. De Pauw, Linda Grant, and Michael McCurdy. 1994. Founding mothers: women of America in the Revolutionary era. Boston: Houghton Mifflin
  • Grundset, Eric, Briana L. Diaz, and Hollis L. Gentry. 2011. America's Women in the Revolutionary Era: A History through Bibliography. Washington, D.C.: National Society Daughters of the American Revolution.
  • Norton, Mary Beth. 1980. Liberty's daughters: the Revolutionary Experience of American Women, 1750-1800. Boston: Little, Brown.
* Babits, Lawrence Edward. 2001. A devil of a whipping: the Battle of Cowpens. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.
  • Edgar, Walter. 2006. The South Carolina encyclopedia. Columbia, S.C: University of South Carolina Press.
  • Grundset, Eric, Briana L. Diaz, and Hollis L. Gentry. 2011. America's Women in the Revolutionary Era: A History through Bibliography. Washington, D.C.: National Society Daughters of the American Revolution.
* Baker, Mark Allen. 2014. Connecticut families of the Revolution: American forebears from Burr to Wolcott. Charleston, SC : History Press, 2014.
* Claghorn, Charles Eugene. 1992. Women Patriots of the American Revolution: Biographical Dictionary. Scarecrow P.
* “Enclosure: Elizabeth Burgin to James Caldwell, 19 November 1779,” Founders Online, National Archives, last modified February 1, 2018, http://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/03-23-02-0550-0002. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Revolutionary War Series, vol. 23, 22 October–31 December 1779, ed. William M. Ferraro. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2015, pp. 717–719.]
  • “To George Washington from Elizabeth Burgin, 16 March 1780,” Founders Online, National Archives, last modified February 1, 2018, http://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/99-01-02-01137.
  • Bakeless, John Edwin. 1998. Turncoats, traitors, and heroes. New York, NY: Da Capo Press.
  • Claghorn, Charles Eugene. 1992. Women Patriots of the American Revolution: Biographical Dictionary. Scarecrow P.
  • Grundset, Eric, Briana L. Diaz, and Hollis L. Gentry. 2011. America's Women in the Revolutionary Era: A History through Bibliography. Washington, D.C.: National Society Daughters of the American Revolution.
Watson, Robert P. 2017. The ghost ship of Brooklyn: an untold story of the American Revolution. New York, NY: Da Capo.
* Claghorn, Charles Eugene. 1992. Women Patriots of the American Revolution: Biographical Dictionary. Scarecrow P.
  • Weatherford, Doris. 2004. A history of women in the United States: state-by-state reference. Danbury, Conn: Grolier Academic Reference.
  • Grundset, Eric, Briana L. Diaz, and Hollis L. Gentry. 2011. America's Women in the Revolutionary Era: A History through Bibliography. Washington, D.C.: National Society Daughters of the American Revolution.
* De Pauw, Linda Grant, and Michael McCurdy. 1994. Founding mothers: women of America in the Revolutionary era. Boston: Houghton Mifflin
  • Grundset, Eric, Briana L. Diaz, and Hollis L. Gentry. 2011. America's Women in the Revolutionary Era: A History through Bibliography. Washington, D.C.: National Society Daughters of the American Revolution. (see "Hagar, Elizabeth/Betsy")
  • Weatherford, Doris. 2004. A history of women in the United States: state-by-state reference. Danbury, Conn: Grolier Academic Reference. (see “Hagar, Betsy”)
* Egle, William Henry. 1898. Some Pennsylvania women during the War of the Revolution. Harrisburg Publishing Company: Harrisburg, PA.
  • Grundset, Eric, Briana L. Diaz, and Hollis L. Gentry. 2011. America's Women in the Revolutionary Era: A History through Bibliography. Washington, D.C.: National Society Daughters of the American Revolution.
* Tuchman, Barbara W. 2000. The first salute. London: Phoenix Press.
* Claghorn, Charles Eugene. 1992. Women Patriots of the American Revolution: Biographical Dictionary. Scarecrow P.
  • Grundset, Eric, Briana L. Diaz, and Hollis L. Gentry. 2011. America's Women in the Revolutionary Era: A History through Bibliography. Washington, D.C.: National Society Daughters of the American Revolution.
* Grundset, Eric, Briana L. Diaz, and Hollis L. Gentry. 2011. America's Women in the Revolutionary Era: A History through Bibliography. Washington, D.C.: National Society Daughters of the American Revolution.
  • McEuen, Melissa A. 2015. Kentucky women: their lives and times.
* Berkin, Carol. 2006. Revolutionary mothers: women in the struggle for America's independence.
  • De Pauw, Linda Grant, and Michael McCurdy. 1994. Founding mothers: women of America in the Revolutionary era. Boston: Houghton Mifflin
  • Grundset, Eric, Briana L. Diaz, and Hollis L. Gentry. 2011. America's Women in the Revolutionary Era: A History through Bibliography. Washington, D.C.: National Society Daughters of the American Revolution.
* Frank, Lisa Tendrich. 2013. An encyclopedia of American women at war : from the home front to the battlefields Vol. 2 Santa Barbara, Calif. [u.a.]: ABC-CLIO.
  • Grundset, Eric, Briana L. Diaz, and Hollis L. Gentry. 2011. America's Women in the Revolutionary Era: A History through Bibliography. Washington, D.C.: National Society Daughters of the American Revolution.
* Finger, Simon. "An Indissoluble Union: How the American War for Independence Transformed Philadelphia's Medical Community and Created a Public Health Establishment." Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies 77, no. 1 (2010): 37-72.
  • Grundset, Eric, Briana L. Diaz, and Hollis L. Gentry. 2011. America's Women in the Revolutionary Era: A History through Bibliography. Washington, D.C.: National Society Daughters of the American Revolution.
* Claghorn, Charles Eugene. 1992. Women Patriots of the American Revolution: Biographical Dictionary. Scarecrow P.
  • Grundset, Eric, Briana L. Diaz, and Hollis L. Gentry. 2011. America's Women in the Revolutionary Era: A History through Bibliography. Washington, D.C.: National Society Daughters of the American Revolution.
* Furlong, William Rea. 1990. So proudly we hail: the history of the United States flag. Washington: Smithsonian.
  • Guenter, Scot M. 1990. The American flag, 1777-1924: cultural shifts from creation to codification. Rutherford [u.a.]: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ. Pr. [u.a.].
  • Preble, George Henry. 1894. History of the flag of the United States of America: and of the naval and yacht-club signals, seals, and arms, and principal national songs of the United States, with a chronicle of the symbols, standards, banners, and flags of ancient and modern nations. Boston, Mass: Houghton, Mifflin and Co.
* Appleby, Joyce, Eileen K. Cheng, and Joanne L. Goodwin. 2002. Encyclopedia of women in American history. Volume I, Volume I. Armonk, New York: Sharpe Reference
  • Boyer, Paul S., Edward T. James, and Janet Wilson James. 2012. Notable American women, 1607-1950 a biographical dictionary. Cambridge, Mass: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.
  • Claghorn, Charles Eugene. 1992. Women Patriots of the American Revolution: Biographical Dictionary. Scarecrow P.
  • Grundset, Eric, Briana L. Diaz, and Hollis L. Gentry. 2011. America's Women in the Revolutionary Era: A History through Bibliography. Washington, D.C.: National Society Daughters of the American Revolution.
  • Weatherford, Doris. 2004. A history of women in the United States: state-by-state reference. Danbury, Conn: Grolier Academic Reference.
* Louise, E. 2001. Elizabeth Clevland Hardcastle, 1741-1808 : a lady of color in the South Carolina Low Country. Columbia, SC: Phoenix Publishers.
  • Caulker-Burnett, Imodale. 2010. The Caulkers of Sierra Leone: the story of a ruling family and their times. [Place of publication not identified]: Xlibris.
  • Sparks, Randy J. 2016. Africans in the Old South: mapping exceptional lives across the Atlantic world. Cambridge : Harvard University Press.
* Gates, Henry Louis. 2008. The African American National Biography 1 1. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press.
  • Brown, Rebecca Warren, and Mary Webb. 2000. Memoir of Mrs. Chloe Spear: a native of Africa, who was enslaved in childhood, and died in Boston, January 3, 1815, aged 65 years. [Chapel Hill, N.C.]: Academic Affairs Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/brownrw/brownrw.sgml.
* Grumet, Robert Steven. 1996. Northeastern Indian lives, 1632-1816. Amherst, Mass: University of Massachusetts Press.
* https://www.ahgp.org/women/hannah_watts_weston_1758_1855.html
  • Drisko, George W. 1903. The Revolution: life of Hannah Weston, with a brief history of her ancestry : also a condensed history of the first settlement of Jonesborough, Machias and other neighboring towns. Machias, ME: Geo. A. Parlin. Retrieved 1 March 2018 from https://archive.org/details/revolutionlifeof00drisk
* Bailey, Abigail Abbot, and Ethan Smith. 1815. Memoirs of Mrs. Abigail Bailey. Boston: Samuel T. Armstrong. Retrieved 1 March 2018 from https://archive.org/details/memoirsofmrsabig00bail
  • Sarat, Austin. 1995. Law in everyday life. Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Press.
* Gates, Henry Louis. 2008. The African American National Biography 1 1. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press.

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  • Hine, Darlene Clark. 2005. Black women in America: an Historical Encyclopedia. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Mills, Gary B. 2013. The Forgotten People: Cane River's Creoles of Color. Louisiana State University Press.
* Brooks, Rebecca Beatrice. "The Roles of Women in the Revolutionary War". History of Massachusetts.</ref>
* "Martha Bell". Women History Blog.
* Hunold, Janice (March 25, 2017). "REVOLUTIONARY JERSEY GIRLS: IS THERE ONE IN YOUR FAMILY?". The Two River Times.
* "Jemima Boone Callaway". Find A Grave.
  • Grundset, Eric, Briana L. Diaz, and Hollis L. Gentry. 2011. America's Women in the Revolutionary Era: A History through Bibliography. Washington, D.C.: National Society Daughters of the American Revolution.
  • McEuen, Melissa A. 2015. Kentucky women: their lives and times.
  • Weatherford, Doris. 2004. A history of women in the United States: state-by-state reference. Danbury, Conn: Grolier Academic Reference.
* Beeman, Cynthia J. "Maria Betancourt". Women in Texas History.
  • Acosta, Teresa Palomo, and Ruthe Winegarten. 2004. Las Tejanas 300 years of history. Austin: University of Texas Press.
  • Carrington, Evelyn M. 1994. Women in early Texas. Austin [Tex.]: Texas State Historical Association.
* "HEAD STONE UNVEILED SEPT. 27th, 2015 ANN FISHER MILLER Honoring Patriot Ann Fisher Miller wife of Patriot Elijah Miller". Doll 1776.
  • Liebson, Richard (September 15, 2015). "Grave of George Washington's hostess restored; house falling apart". Lohud.
  • Coles, Elizabeth Gesner Horton. 1919. Historical sketch of the Washington headquarters. [White Plains, N.Y.]: [Long's White Plains Print Shop].
  • Rösch, John. 1939. Historic White Plains. [White Plains, N.Y.]: [Printed by Balletto-Sweetman].

Notable DAR Members[edit]

* Roberts, amie. "American Spirit on the Case: Saluting Black History Month, Finding Female Ancestors".
  • Yee, Shirley J. (1992). Black Women Abolitionists: A Study in Activitism, 1828-1860. Knoxville, TN: The University of Tennessee Press.
  • Hansen, Debra Gold. 2009. Strained Sisterhood : Gender and Class in the Boston Female Anti-slavery Society. Boston, MA: University of Massachusetts Press.
  • Yellin, Jean Fagan, and John C. Van Horne. 1994. The Abolitionist sisterhood: women's political culture in Antebellum America. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
  • Yee, Shirley J. 1993. Black women abolitionists: a study in activitism, 1828-1860. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press.
* "New Hampshire Necrology," The Granite monthly : a New Hampshire magazine, devoted to literature, history, and state progress. Vol. 38 (1906), p. 255. Dover, N.H.: Metcalf. Retrieved from : https://books.google.com/books?id=_rIVAAAAYAAJ&lpg=PA255&ots=taI7CNZ55W&dq=%22sophronia%20fletcher%22&pg=PA255#v=onepage&q=%22sophronia%20fletcher%22&f=false
Brigadier General Jodi Tymeson
Rear Admiral Donna Crisp
Major General Margaret C. Wilmoth

Additional Sources[edit]

Daughters of the American Revolution Library Information

National Register of Historic Places Database

National Archives Catalog

Library of Congress Digital Collections

Historical Society of Pennsylvania

New York Historical Society

Attendees[edit]

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