Obstinate Daughters: shining a light on the women who sparked the American Revolution (opens in new tab)

A revealing new book, eight years in the making, singles out rebellious women from US history whose stories have often been sidelinedMargaret Corbin was a hero of the American Revolution, the wife of an artilleryman killed at Fort Washington in New York who took over his gun to fight the British. Grievously wounded, she became the first woman to receive a US military pension. In 1926, 150 years after the battle, her supposed remains were exhumed in Highland Falls, up the Hudson from Manhattan...