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Introduction<\/h2>\nThomas Jefferson\u2019s electoral victory over John Adams\u2014and the larger\u00a0victory of the Republicans over the Federalists\u2014was but one of many changes in the early republic. The wealthy and the powerful, middling and poor whites, Native Americans, free and enslaved African Americans, influential and poor women:\u00a0all demanded a voice\u00a0in the\u00a0new nation that Thomas Paine called an \u201casylum\u201d for liberty. They would all, in their own way,\u00a0lay claim to the ideals of freedom and equality heralded, if not fully realized, by\u00a0the Revolution. These sources show these competing claims to freedom and reveal the competing visions for the new nation.\n

Genius of the Ladies<\/h2>\n
\n\n[caption id=\"\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"551\"]\"English Thackara & Vallance, Frontispiece and title page from \"The Lady's magazine, and repository of entertaining knowledge\" showing the \"Genius of the Ladies magazine\" presenting the figure of Liberty with a copy of Mary Wollstoncraft's \"Vindication of the rights of women,\" 1792 via Library of Congress.[\/caption]\n\n<\/div>\nDespite the restrictions imposed on their American citizenship, white women worked to expand their rights to education in the new nation using literature and the arts. The first journal for women in the United States, The Lady\u2019s Magazine, and repository of entertaining knowledge, introduced their initial volume with an engraving celebrating the transatlantic exchange between women\u2019s rights advocates. In the engraving, English writer Mary Wollstonecraft presents her work, \u201cA Vindication of the Rights of Woman,\u201d to Liberty who has the tools of the arts at her feet.\n

America guided by wisdom<\/h2>\n
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John J. Bartlett, \u201cAmerica guided by wisdom An allegorical representation of the United States depicting their independence and prosperity,\u201d 1815, via Library of Congress<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\nThis print reflects the sense of triumph many white Americans felt following the War of 1812. Drawing from the visual language of Jeffersonian Republicans, we see America\u2014represented as a woman in classical dress\u2014surrounded by gods of wisdom, commerce, and agriculture on one side and a statue of George Washington emblazoned with the recent war\u2019s victories on the other. The romantic sense of the United States as the heir to the ancient Roman republic, pride in military victory, and the glorification of domestic production contributed to the idea the young nation was about to enter an \u201cera of good feelings.\u201d","rendered":"

Introduction<\/h2>\n

Thomas Jefferson\u2019s electoral victory over John Adams\u2014and the larger\u00a0victory of the Republicans over the Federalists\u2014was but one of many changes in the early republic. The wealthy and the powerful, middling and poor whites, Native Americans, free and enslaved African Americans, influential and poor women:\u00a0all demanded a voice\u00a0in the\u00a0new nation that Thomas Paine called an \u201casylum\u201d for liberty. They would all, in their own way,\u00a0lay claim to the ideals of freedom and equality heralded, if not fully realized, by\u00a0the Revolution. These sources show these competing claims to freedom and reveal the competing visions for the new nation.<\/p>\n

Genius of the Ladies<\/h2>\n
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\"English<\/p>\n

Thackara & Vallance, Frontispiece and title page from “The Lady’s magazine, and repository of entertaining knowledge” showing the “Genius of the Ladies magazine” presenting the figure of Liberty with a copy of Mary Wollstoncraft’s “Vindication of the rights of women,” 1792 via Library of Congress.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Despite the restrictions imposed on their American citizenship, white women worked to expand their rights to education in the new nation using literature and the arts. The first journal for women in the United States, The Lady\u2019s Magazine, and repository of entertaining knowledge, introduced their initial volume with an engraving celebrating the transatlantic exchange between women\u2019s rights advocates. In the engraving, English writer Mary Wollstonecraft presents her work, \u201cA Vindication of the Rights of Woman,\u201d to Liberty who has the tools of the arts at her feet.<\/p>\n

America guided by wisdom<\/h2>\n
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\"Romantic<\/p>\n

John J. Bartlett, \u201cAmerica guided by wisdom An allegorical representation of the United States depicting their independence and prosperity,\u201d 1815, via Library of Congress<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

This print reflects the sense of triumph many white Americans felt following the War of 1812. Drawing from the visual language of Jeffersonian Republicans, we see America\u2014represented as a woman in classical dress\u2014surrounded by gods of wisdom, commerce, and agriculture on one side and a statue of George Washington emblazoned with the recent war\u2019s victories on the other. The romantic sense of the United States as the heir to the ancient Roman republic, pride in military victory, and the glorification of domestic production contributed to the idea the young nation was about to enter an \u201cera of good feelings.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t

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