The Revolution wasn’t won by generals alone.
In this companion lecture to the Webb Deane Stevens Museum’s exhibition Remember the Ladies: Women of the Revolution , Zara Anishanslin introduces us to the women who shaped the war for independence—from those who rallied communities and supplied armies to the enslaved women whose pursuit of freedom exposed the deepest contradictions of the new nation.
These are stories of courage, resourcefulness, and influence that have waited too long to be told.
Tickets: $15 |$12.50 Virtual | $10 Members *This lecture will be offered in person and via Zoom.
Zoom link will be provided in advance of the lecture.
Zara Anishanslin | Zara Anishanslin is a historian of Early America and the Atlantic World specializing in eighteenth-century material culture.
She holds a PhD from the University of Delaware and BAs in Comparative Literature and History from UNC Chapel Hill, where she was a Morehead-Cain Scholar.
A former faculty member at Columbia and CUNY and Postdoctoral Fellow at Johns Hopkins, she has held fellowships from the Huntington Library, American Antiquarian Society, Winterthur Museum, the Royal Archives at Windsor Castle, and the American Philosophical Society, among others.
Her first book, Portrait of a Woman in Silk (Yale University Press, 2016), won the Library Company of Philadelphia’s Biennial Book Prize.
Her forthcoming The Painter’s Fire: A Forgotten History of the Artists who Championed the American Revolution (Harvard University Press, July 2025) continues her work bridging rigorous scholarship and public history — most visibly as Material Culture Consultant for Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton!
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