Category: women

• Women in the Civil War & Cornbread

  The Civil War period is heartbreaking.  In addition to the idea that our country was fighting over keeping millions of people enslaved and spreading legal enslavement into new territory acquired by the United States, it was long and bloody, and it tore families, communities, and friendships apart.   The Civil War is ripe with ways…

  CherylAnne Amendola

  August 1, 2022

  Civil War, history in the kitchen, women, women’s history

• History in the Kitchen: The Schuyler Sisters & Pickled Cucumbers

  

  “Angelica, Eliza, & Peggy… the Schuyler Sisters!” These three women were made famous by the smash musical Hamilton- but who are they really?

  CherylAnne Amendola

  August 1, 2020

  american revolution, colonial history, distance learning, federalists, gender, hamilton, history in the kitchen, women, women’s history

  founding, hamilton, historyinthekitchen, schuyler, women, womenshistory

• Women of Washington’s Era

  

  “Remember the ladies” is perhaps one of the most famous lines by a woman of the Revolutionary Era.  Abagail Adams pleaded with her husband John that women be included in some way in the new government.  Abigail’s station in life afforded her the privilege of being able to express her desire for rights as other…

  CherylAnne Amendola

  March 16, 2017

  alternative assessment, multicultural education, women