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Among the most powerful artifacts I know of early American women’s work isn’t an artifact at all. It is the darkened wood around some eighteenth-century flooring, shown to me many years ago now by an architectural conservator at work in the Porter-Phelps...

Sarah Gray Cary from Boston to Grenada: Shifting Fortunes of an American Family, 1764-1826 While working with the first-person narratives that inform this book, I found historical moment after moment open up in new and often compelling ways. Knowing for...