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Daughters of the American Revolution

Nonprofit organization

This article is about the women's organization. For the Grant Wood painting, see Daughters of Revolution.

DAR Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C.

AbbreviationNSDAR or DAR
FoundedOctober 11, 1890
FoundersMary Smith Lockwood
Mary Desha
Ellen Hardin Walworth
Eugenia Washington
TypeNon-profit, lineage society, service organization
FocusHistoric preservation, education, patriotism, community service
HeadquartersMemorial Continental Hall
Washington, D.C., U.S.
Membership190,000

President General

Pamela Rouse Wright

Publication

American Monthly (1892–2001)
American Spirit Magazine (2001–present)
Daughters Magazine (2001–present)
AffiliationsChildren of the American Revolution
Websitedar.org

The National Society Daughters of the American Revolution (often abbreviated as DAR or NSDAR) is a lineage-based membership service organization for women who are directly descended from a patriot of the American Revolutionary War.[1] A non-profit

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From the O. Henry Award-winning author of the story collection The Bostons - a New York Times Notable Book, a Los Angeles Times Book of the Year, and winner of the PEN Robert Bingham Fellowship for Writers - an exquisite first novel set at a disintegrating New England prep school.

It's 1968. The prestigious but cash-strapped Goode School in the town of Cape Wilde is run by its aging, philandering headmaster, Goddard Byrd, known to both his friends and enemies as God. With Cape Wilde engulfed by the social and political storms of integration, coeducation, and the sexual revolution, God has confidently promised coeeducation "over my dead body." And then, through a clerical error, the Goode School admits its first female student: Carol Faust, a brilliant, intractable fifteen-year-old black girl.

What does it mean to be the First Girl?

Carolyn Cooke has written a ferociously intelligent, richly sensual novel about the lives of girls and women, the complicated desperation of daughters without fathers, and the erosion of paternalistic power in

The Other Daughters of the Revolution

The Narrative of K. White (1809) and the Memoirs of Elizabeth Fisher (1810)

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Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. K. White, Narrative of the Life, Occurrences, Vicissitudes and Present Situation of K. White (1809)
2. Elizabeth Munro Fisher, Memoirs of Mrs. Elizabeth Fisher (1810)
Bibliography
Index

Early in the nineteenth century, New York residents K. White and Elizabeth Fisher wrote and published two of the earliest autobiographies written by American women. Their lives ran along parallel courses: both were daughters of Loyalists who chose to remain in the United States; both found themselves entangled in unhappy marriages, abandoned for extend periods, and forced to take on the role of sole provider; and both became involved in property disputes with their male kin, which eventually landed them in prison, where they wrote their narratives. White's tale is a highly crafted text, almost an embryonic novel, incorporating several subgenres and interweaving poetry and prose. Fisher's story, while

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