20 Founding Mothers and Backbone of America

America honors its Founding Fathers, though often in a manner unworthy of them, Too often they are depicted as bewigged gentlemen, always in formal attire and ostentatious pose, Their vibrancy is stripped from them, They appear as stoics, debating politics and positions in formal prose, loftily deciding the fate of the nation, Their wives are presented as mere decoration, a sideshow to the great acts performed as part of creating the nation, Women of the age are barely considered, at best rendered in the background, their influence and contributions ignored, This is inaccurate and unfair, The women of early America contributed mightily to the creation of the American experiment.

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