by Stephanie Dray | Jul 17, 2025 | A Founding Mother, Abigail Adams, American Revolution, Heroines, My Works, News
“And by the way, in the new Code of Laws which I suppose it will be necessary for you to make I desire you would Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands....
by Stephanie Dray | Jul 8, 2025 | A Founding Mother, Abigail Adams, American Revolution, My Works, News
“I hope our people will never again suffer the flag of a tyrant to fly.” John Adams to Abigail Adams, 26 June 1776 “In private Life, no one has a Right to censure me for following my own Inclinations, in Retirement, Simplicity, and Frugality: in...
by Stephanie Dray | Jun 10, 2021 | American Revolution, For Readers, Fun Stuff, If the Hat Fits, The Women of Chateau Lafayette
In 1824, Lafayette made his Farewell Tour, visiting all twenty-four of the then United States. In anticipation of Independence Day I’d like to see him in all 50 states, and you can help!...
by Stephanie Dray | Apr 12, 2018 | American Revolution, Historical Fiction Genre, My Dear Hamilton, My Works
Yesterday, while on tour for the launch of our new novel about Eliza Schuyler Hamilton, we got the amazing news that My Dear Hamilton hit the USA Today Bestseller list in its release week. This is all because of you, readers and we’re so grateful! This book was...
by Stephanie Dray | Oct 10, 2017 | American Revolution, Eliza, For Readers, Heroines, My Dear Hamilton, My Works
My co-author Laura Kamoie and I had the pleasure of visiting this historic site early in our research process to get a feel for the place in which Eliza Schuyler Hamilton grew up and where she spent her early marriage. Where her family lived. And the place that was to...
by Stephanie Dray | Feb 7, 2017 | American Revolution, Eliza, For Readers, Research
I’ll be putting quotes here from one Founding Father about the other. These particular ones are written after Hamilton’s untimely death in 1804 at the hands of Vice President Aaron Burr. On Hamilton’s Honor and Integrity “Of Mr. Hamilton I...
