It’s one of Abigail Adams’s most famous lines. Early in 1776 — not even 12 months after the battles of Lexington and Concord — she wrote to her husband, John, who was with the Continental Congress.

Visitors to the public library’s teen loft last week got an impromptu lesson in the women of the American Revolutionary War, ...

Now, and for some years to come, we will need a lot less Paul Weiss, and a lot more Benjamin Warner.