The role of women changed in early American history, but what was the biggest change at our nationโs founding? Renowned historian, author and George Mason University professor Rosemarieย Zagarri talks to Cardinal 250 host Dutchie Jessee about the pivotal role women played in the โsocial mediaโ of their time.
Check out our other Cardinal 250 podcasts:
- Isle of Wight Museum Director Jennifer England talks about Elizabeth Bennett Young, the wife of an Isle of Wight County deputy clerk, who spirited the county records away and buried them to protect them from the British.
- Cheryl Wilson, executive director of Virginiaโs 250 commission, talks about the commissionโs work, a year out from the big anniversary.
- Cardinal News founding editor Dwayne Yanceyย talks about the 250 project.
- Matthew Webster of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundationย about the restoration of the Magazine, the Colonial capitalโs powder magazine.
- Michael Hudson of Historic Smithfieldย in Blacksburg talks about Botetourt County spy John Wyatt.
- Stephen Wilson of the St. Johnโs Church Foundation, about Patrick Henryโs famous โgive me liberty or give me deathโ speech.
- Harvey Bakari, Black history curator at the Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation on Billy Flora,ย a free Black man who was a hero of the Battle of Great Bridge.
- The age of the Founding Fathers (which was younger than you might think).
- ย The music of the Revolution.
- ย The legend of Susanna Bolling, a 16-year-old from modern-day Hopewell who supposedly rode overnight to save Lafayette from being captured
- Historian Garrett Channell on โforgotten founderโ Andrew Lewis.
- Tom Vaughan of the Overmountain Men Trail Association.
- Essex County Museum Executive Director Tim Manley about his countyโs re-enactment of the historic Essex Resolutions.
- ย Descendants of Black Virginians who moved to freedom in Nova Scotia after the warย (and the Canadian museum dedicated to them).
- Award-winning historian Woody Holton aboutย โthe forgotten founders.โ
- Retired Virginia Commonwealth University journalism professor Jeff South aboutย the role of the press in Colonial Virginia.ย
- South also talks about Clementina Rind,ย the first woman to publish a newspaper in Virginia.
- Cheryl Wilson,ย executive director of the Virginia American Revolution 250 Commission

