"In a canon rife with the contributions of white males to the creation of our nation, most of us know there is more left unsaid and unwritten," writes Denise Kiernan about midway through Obstinate Daughters: The Rebels, Writers, and Renegade Women Who Ignited the American Revolution.
An attempt to leave a little less of this unwritten, the book includes women of various stations, statuses, and sympathies navigating the drama—military, political, and domestic—of the Revolutionary War.
