Abigail Adams and Mercy Otis Warren: Consequential Women in Consequential Times

An award-winning historian of the American Revolution and the creator and host of the award-winning podcast Ben Franklin’s World, Covart’s digital work aims to lessen the polarization of American political and cultural factions by building a shared community interest in early American history. Her traditional scholarship informs her digital work by investigating how early Americans embraced cultural and political diversity to form local, regional, and national communities. To learn more about Covart, visit her website.

Sara Georgini is series editor for The Papers of John Adams, part of the Adams Papers editorial project based at the Massachusetts Historical Society, where she has worked for nearly two decades. She is the author of Household Gods: The Religious Lives of the Adams Family (Oxford, 2019) and the forthcoming Our Library in Paris (Oxford, 2027), as well as editor of The Oxford Handbook of Family History and Genealogy (Oxford, 2027) and co-editor of Americans in Revolution: New Intellectual Histories (UVA Press, 2027). As a historical editor, she publishes authoritative editions of the founders’ words; leads student and teacher workshops; curates manuscripts and artifacts in thematic exhibits like “1776: Declaring Independence;” and brings Adams expertise (spanning three centuries) to broad audiences in person and online.

Nancy Rubin Stuart is an award-winning author and journalist who specializes in women, biography, and social history. Born in Boston, Rubin Stuart graduated from Tufts University with a B.A. in English and an M.A.T. from Brown University. In 1995, Mount Vernon College, now part of Georgetown University, awarded her an honorary Doctorate in Humane Letters. She received the American Antiquarian Society’s William Randolph Hearst Award for research leading to Beacon Press’s publication of The Muse of the Revolution: The Secret Pen of Mercy Otis Warren and the Founding of a Nation in 2008. That book won the 2009 Historic Winslow House Book Award and was a finalist in USA Today Book News 2010 “Best Book” Awards. Rubin Stuart presently serves as Executive Director of the Cape Cod Writers Center.