Today's DAR
The March/April 2022 issue of American Spirit magazine is our annual tribute to Women’s History Month—one of our favorite issues to work on every year! Our past March/April editions have featured women such as Margaret Fuller, an early women’s rights activist; Sarah Wilson, Colonial imposter; and Mercy Otis Warren, the conscience of the American Revolution. We’ve also tackled issues that affected women of the Colonial era, such as coverture laws, which we explored in the March/April 2021 issue, and divorce and separation in early America, which we discussed in the March/April 2020 issue. This year’s tribute includes articles on lives of the five Schuyler sisters; Anne Hutchinson, who was banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony for her stance against the Puritan patriarchy; and Ann Robertson Johnson Cockrill, an early Nashville settler who braved a Cherokee attack.
We also have two special features in this issue: one focuses on women artists in early America such as Patience Lovell Wright, a notable wax sculptress and Harriet Cany Peale, the painter of our beautiful cover for this issue. The other special feature showcases the lives of five memorable ladies including Dinah Nuthead, known as the first woman printer in America and Sarah Bradlee Fulton, the “mother of the Boston Tea Party.” These women defied gender norms and actively contributed their skills and efforts to improve their lives.
