“Remember the Ladies”: Women & Politics in the Early Republic

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Explore women’s political activism during and after the American Revolution. Examine Revolutionary-era women’s roles during the war, how those roles shifted in the Early Republic, and how women developed and exercised their rights as political beings in the new nation. A deep focus will be on “female politicians” of the 1790s and as we identify the Early Republic as a crucial moment in what might be called an early women’s rights movement.

Dr. Marcela Micucci is the Executive Director of the Greater Oneonta Historical Society in Oneonta, New York. Prior to joining GOHS in January 2021, Micucci served as the Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellow in Women’s History at the Museum of the American Revolution in Philadelphia, where she co-curated When Women Lost the Vote: A Revolutionary Story, 1776 – 1807 (October 2020 – April 2021), and the Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellow at the Museum of the City of New York in New York City, where she curated Rebel Women: Defying Victorianism (July 2018 – January 2019) and Beyond Suffrage: A Century of New York Women in Politics (October 2017 – August 2018). Her online and physical exhibitions have been featured in esteemed publications, notably the New York Times, Washington Post, and Philadelphia Inquirer. She received her PhD from Binghamton University in 2016, where she specialized in American and women’s and gender history.