Name: Working for the Revolution: Patriot Women's Lives During the War
Start: 2026-01-22T18:30:00-05:00
End: 2026-01-22T20:00:00-05:00
Location: 227 S Main St, West Hartford, CT, United States, Connecticut 06107

Working for the Revolution: Patriot Women's Lives During the War
Thursday, January 22, 2026
6:30 p.m.
Tickets available now at: https://noahwebster.yapsody.com/event/index/852483/before-salem-witch-hunting-in-the-connecticut-river-valley
The talk will explore how women contributed to the American Revolutionary effort politically, economically, intellectually, and even militarily. Using original sources like newspapers, court records, letters, and pension records, Dr. Hermes will show how Indigenous, Anglo-European, and African-descended women all helped to further the Patriot cause.
This program is co-hosted by the Noah Webster House & West Hartford Historical Society, West Hartford 250, and the West Hartford Town Historian.
About The Presenter:
Katherine Hermes is the publisher and executive director of Connecticut Explored magazine, a non-profit history publication produced for readers interested in Connecticut’s past. She is professor emerita of history at Central Connecticut State University, where she taught Early American history for 25 years. She has created and been involved with a number of digital public history projects, including Forgotten Voices of the Revolutionary War: People of Color and the Redding Encampment, 1778-1779.
This America250 presentation is supported by Eversource Energy & The Rotary Club of West Hartford.