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Happy Saturday.

May 23rd is Deborah Sampson Day in Massachusetts.

So since it's May 23rd, we've chosen our episode on her as today's Saturday classic.

Deborah Samson served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War under the name Robert Shirtliff.

This originally came out on July 4th, 2022. Enjoy.

Welcome to Stuff You Missed in History Class, a production of IHeart Radio.

Hello. production of I Heart Radio. Hello and welcome to the podcast. I'm Tracy V. Wilson, and I'm Holly Fry. This episode is coming out on July 4th, which is Independence Day in the U.S., so since we have an episode coming out on the day itself, which hasn't

happened in a very long time, I thought we'd do something that's both thematically related

and also a listener request. That is Deborah Sampson, who's known by her married name of

Deborah Sampson-Gannett as well. Just as a note up front, we recognize that gender is broader and more

nuanced than this, and that is not a new idea. Deborah Sampson was descended from multiple

people who arrived in North America aboard the Mayflower in 1620, at which point there were

indigenous nations

all over the continent that recognized

and continued to recognize more than two genders.

We've also talked about people like

the public universal friend,

who we covered on the show in 2020,

and the friend lived at the same time as Deborah Sampson did.

They described themselves as genderless. But the communities that Deborah Sampson did. They described themselves as genderless.

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