The Gendered Republic: Reimagining Identity in the New Nation

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Wednesday, March 18th, 2026, at 7 PM ET

Join us for an exciting conversation with the editors and two contributors to The Gendered Republic: Reimagining Identity in the New Nation (University of Virginia, 2025).

What does it mean to study early American history through gender?  The authors of the new collection, The Gendered Republic, bring together women’s history with masculinity studies to showcase the transformative impact of gender history on our understanding of the early American republic. Collectively, the contributors showcase the vibrancy of gender history as a frame of inquiry, revealing how shifting notions of women’s and men’s roles shaped the lives of people in the early American republic—White, Black, and Indigenous—and how those people, in turn, experienced and redefined gender and, with it, their communities, cultures, laws, families, and nations.

Rachel Hope Cleves is Professor of History at the University of Victoria and a contributor to The Gendered Republic

Lorri Glover is Professor of History at Saint Louis University and co-editor of The Gendered Republic

Kenneth E. Marshall is Professor of History at SUNY Oswego and a contributor to The Gendered Republic

Craig Thompson Friend is Professor of History and Public History at North Carolina State University and co-editor of The Gendered Republic

Sponsored by the Davida Tenenbaum Deutsch Program in Women’s History at the Library Company of Philadelphia