In a letter dated March 31, 1776, Abigail Adams wrote to her husband, John Adams, in Philadelphia, urging him and other members of the Continental Congress to keep the interests of women in mind ...

On September 22, 1774, Abigail Adams wrote to her husband John of "a conspiracy of the negroes," referring to the June petition signed by Prince Hall and others and presented to Thomas Gage ...

Of all the words that spilled from Abigail Adams' pen, none are more famous than those of March 31, 1776. With her husband at the ... meaning to her words. Her letter, however, remains remarkable.

revealing letters, have been a magnet for scholars and material for a mother lode of Adams books. The writings of passionate, principled Abigail, who urged her blunt, brilliant husband to ...

Abigail shared her husband’s disdain for his ... animal padding along at her side. In an 1811 letter to her granddaughter Caroline Smith, Adams declared that “As if you love me proverbially ...

These lines, written a month after the United States declared its independence from Britain, evoke the letters written by Abigail Adams to her husband, John, while he was at the Continental Congress.

The letter was written in 1788 as Abigail Adams was getting ready to sail home from her husband John Adams' ambassadorship in London. He would soon be elected the country's first vice president.

Abigail Adams, although she had no formal education, was a prolific letter writer who often advised her husband on affairs of state. “She was speaking about issues of slavery, she was talking ...

"She’s not there now, and she belongs on the common near her husband. There is not a marriage that, as a couple, has had a greater influence on who we are as a people than John and Abigail Adams ...

On October 25, 1764, Abigail wed John Adams, commencing a partnership ... Abigail called her husband's sojourn to Europe her "widowhood." When his letters dwindled, Abigail struck up a ...