Learn about the amazing work of Phillis Wheatley, the mother of black literature in America.

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Carretta, Vincent. Phillis Wheatley: Biography of a Genius in Bondage. University of Georgia Press, 2011. 

Wheatley, Phillis. ‘To a Lady and her Children, on the Death of her Son and their Brother’, 1773. 

Hoose, Phillip M. We Were There Too. Phillip House, 2001. 

Michals, Deborah. 2015. http://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/phillis-wheatley. Visited 4/16/2025 

Waldstreicher, David. The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley. Recorded Books, 2023. 

Learn about one of American's most influential founding mothers, socialite and patriot, Elizabeth Willing Powel.

1. A Portrait of Elizabeth Willing Powel: 1743-1830, David Walker Maxey, (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 2006), 17-19.

2. Elizabeth Willing Powel. Mount Vernon. Viewed February 3, 2025.http://www.mountvernon.org/library/digitalhistory/digital-encyclopedia/article/elizabeth-willing-powel

3. "Elizabeth Willing Powel to Martha Hare, 25 April, 1814", Powel Family Papers, Historical Society of Pennsylvania.

4. Hass, Kimberly. Elizabeth Willing Powel: Philadelphia's Eighteenth Century Influencer. March 16, 2024.http://www. hiddencityphila.org/2024/03/elizabeth-willing-powel-philadelphias-18th-century-influencer/

Learn about the wife, mother, Quaker and Patriot Spy, Lydia Barrington Darragh.

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2. Hoose, Phillip. "We Were There Too." Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2001.

4. www.britannica.com/event/Quartering-Act  (2024) Quartering Act (2024) 

5. www.revolutionary-war.net/lydia-darragh/ (Mar 2020) Lydia Darragh: Quaker, Pacifist and American Spy 

Sybil Ludington, the patriotic heroine who helped warn the colonists of the English invasion of Connecticut and New York.

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Berton Braley, “Sybil Ludington’s Ride,” This Week magazine, Washington, D.C., 4 April 1940 

David Hackett Fischer, Paul Revere's Ride (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1994), 139. 6 

Hoose, Phillip, We Were There, Too! (United States of American, 2001). 

http://www.revolutionary-war.net/sybil-ludington/ Sybil Ludington 

Martha J. Lamb, History of the City of New York: Volume 2 (New York, NY: A.S. Barnes and Company, 1880), 207. 5  

Paula D. Hunt, “Sybil Ludington, the Female Paul Revere: The Making of a Revolutionary War Heroine,” The New England Quarterly 88, no. 2 (2015): pp. 187-222, https://doi.org/10.1162/tneq_a_00452), 190. 

The Midnight Ride of Sybil Ludington: A Forgotten Hero in the Shadow of Paul Revere Jessica Rebollo Dr. Kate Murphy History 460/461: Senior Project June 12, 2019 

President Manuel Quezon was a lawyer, leader, and humanitarian who took in Jewish refugees during World War II.

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After his journey across the sea to Jamestown, young Thomas Savage was thrust into the care of Chief Powhattan to learn the Algonquian ways and language. Learn more about the boy interpreter and his adventures with author Ora Smith.

www.orasmith.com

www.spiritoffreedompageant.com

https://www.amazon.com/stores/Ora-Smith/author/B07KTDRQKL

Ever wonder about Pochantas's husband? John Rolfe was a shipwreck survivor, widower, tobacco planter, ambassador, Jamestown leader, and father. Learn about his incredible journey.

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Carson, Jane. “The Will of John Rolfe.” The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 58, no. 1 (1950): 58–65. http://www.jstor.org/stable/4245674. 

 Fishwick, Marshall. “Jamestown.” April 23, 2019. 

Historic Jamestowne. https://historicjamestowne.org  

John Rolfe. https://www.history.com/topics/exploration/john-rolfe 

“Pocahontas: Her Life and Legend.” Historic Jamestowne. Part of Colonial National Historical Park (U.S. National Park Service). https://www.nps.gov (Kidnapping of Pocahontas). 

Smith, John. “A True Relation of Occurrences and Accidents in Virginia, 1608.” 

Smith, John. “The General Historie of Viginia, New England and the Summer Isles.” 1624. Reprint in Jamestown Narratives, edited by Edward Wright Haile. Champlain, VA: Roundhouse, 1998. 

Learn about Anne Burras Layton, the first Englishwoman to arrive and survive in the New World.

Link to First Lady of Jamestown.

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Learn more about Mary Dyer, the first and only female Quaker to be executed in America for her beliefs.

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Burrough, Edward. “A Declaration of the Sad and Great Persecution and Martyrdom of the People of God, called Quakers, in New-England, for the Worshipping of God.”1661. http://www.ushistory.org Wiliam Penn. 

Winsser, Johan. Quieting Mary Dyer: Edward Burrough and Dyer's Letter to the Massachusetts General Court. October 26, 1659 

http://wams.nyhistory.org Women and the American Story. Life Story of Mary Dyer. 

Ever wonder who Squanto was and why he helped the Pilgrims? Join me for my first podcast, History's Unsung Heroes, The Story behind Squanto.

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