Liberty for All Women? in the Age of Revolutions

The New York Historical’s Jean Margo Reid Center for Women’s History marks the nation’s semiquincentennial by considering the meaning of revolution: what did the Age of Revolutions, and the American Revolution specifically, unleash? How did it expand—and contract—liberty, and for whom? What legacies of revolution have women carried forward today?

The 11th annual Diane and Adam E. Max Conference on Women’s History will probe the Revolutionary promise: its beginnings, its limitations, its reach, and its legacy. Across three panels and two keynote conversations, we will preview many of the themes that will be explored in our upcoming exhibition, Revolutionary Women to consider how understanding the Revolutionary period—and women’s lives and experiences within its struggles—can help us better understand the American story.