Angelica Schuyler “Carter” Church: A Life in Revolution

The Alexander Hamilton Awareness Society presents author Molly Beer, author of “ANGELICA: For Love and Country in a Time of Revolution,” on Angelica Schuyler Church, her life and times. Molly Beer’s work as a writer and international teacher led her to Europe, Asia, Central and South America, and elsewhere. But her debut book is a homecoming, both to the U.S. and to her rural American hometown of Angelica, New York. By researching and writing the life and experiences of the ambitious, charismatic Angelica Schuyler Church, who inspired much more than her town’s name, Molly Beer set out to tell the U.S. origin story from the perspective of a woman situated at the heart of the American Revolution and the founding era. Angelica joins Molly Beer’s body of award-winning nonfiction that grapples with the politics of place, from travel and the environment to women’s history. She has served as an Olive B. O’Connor Fellow in Creative Writing at Colgate University and currently teaches at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. “For far too long the grand tapestry of America’s journey to independence has foregrounded fathers and sons while keeping the women in the shadows. Molly Beer’s biography of Angelica Schuyler Church is a vital corrective, bringing to life an extraordinary woman whose modern persona as Alexander Hamilton’s friend and sister-in-law was only the beginning of her story.” (Dr. Amanda Foreman, author of The Duchess and A World on Fire)