American Revolution | Part 7 | Republican motherhood and the long impact of the Revolution (with Carol Berkin)

Republican motherhood is a fundamental concept of the early American republic. Women's political power, it argues, is exercised not at the ballot box but in their own separate sphere, where they raise good little patriots. Carol Berkin concludes our series with a look at the long impact of the American revolution for women and connects the dots with the United States' current political landscape, 250 years on.

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Isabelle Roughol - Host Carol Berkin - Guest

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• (00:00) - Carole Berkin part 2 (new)

(01:14) - Start of interview (01:28) - The French won the American Revolution (02:54) - The rise of girls' education (07:34) - What Abigail Adams did not mean (09:42) - Republican or civic motherhood (12:15) - Separate sphere ideology is coming back in the radical right (13:52) - "Femme couverte" (16:00) - From the Revolution to Seneca Falls (17:44) - The exile of loyalist women (22:03) - The betrayal of Black loyalists (28:52) - The fate of Black Americans who stayed (29:56) - Indigenous women had so much more autonomy and American women knew it (33:28) - Molly Brandt (35:54) - The Trail of Tears (38:11) - America's birth myth (41:09) - The Revolution, 250 years on (44:50) - Outro

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