Abigail and John Adams's letters to each other show a rare marriage of equals, historians say. Left: Abigail Adams, by Gilbert Stuart, in the collection of the National Gallery of Art; right: John ...

Sponsor Message In fact, the Adams took decisive steps to ensure their letters would be preserved. In 1776, John wrote to Abigail to tell her he'd bought a leather binder to collect her letters in ...

These lines, written a month after the United States declared its independence from Britain, evoke the letters written by Abigail Adams to her ... A 19th-century painting of the 1776 Battle ...

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 ...

She was tough. She was absolutely tough." The voluminous correspondence of 1,100 letters between Abigail and John Adams provide perhaps the most important primary source of study of the American ...

BOSTON — In a flirtatious courtship letter to his future wife, Abigail, John Adams addresses her as "Miss Adorable." After she died 56 years later, the nation's second president writes his son ...

A rare, previously unknown letter from America's second First Lady Abigail Adams has turned up. The letter was written in 1788 as Abigail Adams was getting ready to sail home from her husband John ...

Of all the words that spilled from Abigail Adams' pen, none are more famous than ... have ascribed that meaning to her words. Her letter, however, remains remarkable. Abigail was an outspoken ...

If you know anything about Abigail Adams, the second first lady of the United States, you are probably aware that she liked to write letters. Approximately 2,300 examples of her prolific ...

Like young girls of her time, Abigail lacked a formal education, but from youth she was intelligent, well read, and outspoken. On October 25, 1764, Abigail wed John Adams, commencing a partnership ...

Juno really took a shine to Abigail. After leaving the White House, she could often be seen with the animal padding along at her side. In an 1811 letter to her granddaughter Caroline Smith, Adams ...