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The Schuyler sisters

Monika Davies - Author

Follow Eliza and Angelica Schuyler’s lives and their connections to Hamilton and United States history, with attention to women’s roles in the period.

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Readers will learn about the fascinating lives of Eliza and Angelica Schuyler, their influence on Alexander Hamilton and United States history, and the roles of women in the 1700s-1800s. Supporting today's social studies standards, this full-color text includes intriguing images, interesting sidebars, a glossary, and other important text features to support learning and strengthen key comprehension skills. Challenging activities require students to use text evidence to connect back to what they've read.

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Themes in Context

Theme in context

The book uses maps and letters alongside explanatory text and activities that ask readers to connect ideas to textual evidence.Exploratory / explanatory

How the book presents it: Its structure gives readers a way to examine historical material and practise grounding connections in what they read.

Talk about: What does this make you notice or wonder about?

Why It May Be Worth Reading

Maps, letters, images and sidebars give readers several ways into the historical material; activities invite them to support connections with details from the text.

What Deserves Attention

The book places the sisters’ lives within public and political history and includes a section on Hamilton.

A Conversation Worth Having

If the book presents different perspectives on the sisters’ influence, what evidence does it use to help readers compare them?

Reading Approach

Look through the maps, letters and sidebars together, then pause at the activities to ask which details in the text support each connection.

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Checked: 1 October 2026.

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