Panelists and featured guests discuss history topics with Angela Oonk in this webinar series.

By researching and writing the life and experiences of the ambitious, charismatic Angelica Schuyler Church, Beer tells the U.S. origin story from the perspective of a woman situated at the heart of the American Revolution and the founding era.

Few women of the American Revolution have come through 250 years of US history with such clarity and color as Angelica Schuyler Church. She was Alexander Hamilton’s “saucy” sister-in-law, and the heart of Thomas Jefferson’s “charming coterie” of artists and salonnières in Paris. Her transatlantic network of important friends spanned the political spectrum of her time and place, and her astute eye and brilliant letters kept them well informed.

In telling Angelica’s story, Beer illuminates how American women have always plied influence and networks for political ends, including the making of a new nation.

Sponsored by The Alumni Association of the University of Michigan Lifelong Learning program.