Why We Need Girls’ Studies: Shauna Pomerantz

Welcome to the third instalment of Girl Museum’s interview series, Why We Need Girls’ Studies, for 2024. We have many exciting interviews this year with important scholars in the field to get insights about what we are all doing in this space to further...

Rebecca Brewton Motte, Sacrifice for Revolution

Portrait of Rebecca Brewton Motte, via WikiCommons. Born on June 15, 1737, Rebecca Brewton Motte was the daughter of Robert Brewton and Mary Loughton Brewton. She grew up in Charles Town (which would later be known as Charleston), South Carolina and was raised in a...

Jane Black Thomas, Fierce Heroine

Jane Black Thomas rides to Cedar Spring to alert the Rebel camp of an upcoming surprise ambush, via WikiTree. Born in 1720 to Robert and Annabelle Waters Black in Chester, Pennsylvania, almost little to none is known about Jane Black’s early life and family life...

Grace and Rachel Martin, Brave Sisters

A map of South Carolina and Georgia from the year 1750, before the American War of Independence. The Martin sisters lived in the central North-Western part of the colony during the war, via Wikipedia. In the pages of history, the incredible tale of Grace and Rachel...

Mary Ludwig Hayes, Water Girl 

A painting of Molly Pitcher bravely manning a cannon during the Battle of Monmouth, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division via WikiCommons. Beginning during the American Revolutionary War and continuing through to today, there has been an elusive legend...

Mary Anna Gibbes, Brave Girl

Peaceful Retreat Plantation – Mrs. Robert Gibbes’ Place, John’s Island, SC by Charles Fraser, May 1797. Original in the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. Few records remain of the “Heroine of Stono,” but to begin we know that her...

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