Now on view at the New York Historical, "Revolutionary Women" spotlights figures with connections to the state, including a Jewish chocolatier, a Mohawk leader and a woman who disguised herself as a man to enlist in the Continental Army

Her writing posed the novel premise: What does it mean to be a woman? Her early death meant she never saw the movement she inspired

The manifesto leaned heavily on Isaac Newton’s theories in making a case for independence, and fellow founders drew on the notion to build a new system of government

Celebrating the visionary insights & darling innovators that forged a nation.