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The American Revolution and the Fall of Patriarchy

Abigail Dolbeare Hinman by Daniel Huntington c/o the Lyman Allyn Art Museum.

By Nathaniel Parry: Nathaniel is author of Samuel Adams and the Vagabond Henry Tufts: Virtue Meets Vice in the Revolutionary Era, recently published by McFarland Books. In recent years, the term “patriarchy” has been rather liberally applied as a description of contemporary society, understood loosely as a system in which men generally enjoy more wealth and influence …