Wrap up!

I really enjoyed doing research on Eliza. I think she and the other founding mothers had a dramatic impact on the shape our country took. And as with many women we studied this quarter they still don’t really get the credit they are due. I think the founding mothers probably knew that what they were doing was historical and that they would be remembered as historically significant along side their husbands (and at least Eliza was certain that their husband would be remembered, she spent so much time recording her husbands legacy), but I doubt they would have ever expected that there would people hundreds of years later would be going back to look at how they helped shape America independent of their husbands.

As we progress as a society, I can only hope that we can do less and less going back to figure out what the women of time were doing and how it effected history because we write down records of what they did just the same as we do men. I mean we aren’t there yet. Like within the past year information has come to public attention about women who are helped launch the first manned missions to space, so clearly we’re still working on giving women as much credit as men and we probably will be for a long time. But maybe someday people won’t need reminders to remember the ladies.