Julia Wolfe never thought she’d write an oratorio about women’s suffrage. In fact ... especially inspiring — a 1776 letter from Abigail Adams to her husband, John Adams, urging him, as ...

Of all the words that spilled from Abigail Adams' pen, none are more famous ... nor was she advocating women's suffrage, although many historians have ascribed that meaning to her words.

Did Burn remember Abigail Adams, who took initiative and asked ... voice to call for the abolition of slavery and women’s suffrage? “Why children, if you have woman’s rights, give it to ...

With banners flying, the not-to-be-forgotten sisters of Abigail Adams were on the march. The nub of their demands was that women’s suffrage was not enough. They demanded a constitutional ...

Jenn Colella as Carrie Chapman Catt (center) in Suffs, a new Broadway musical about the women's suffrage movement Joan Marcus In 1776, Abigail Adams famously implored her husband, John ...

Abigail Adams reminded her husband that “all men ... but not fully secured until the Voting Rights Act in 1965), and later, women’s suffrage (accomplished with ratification of the 19th ...

It has a ferocity that is literally written into the score, but also an absence of resolution as it looks back to suffrage with ... setting of a letter from Abigail Adams to her husband, John ...

Abigail Adams gave birth to six children, three daughters and three sons, four of whom would live to adulthood. One of those four, John Quincy, would achieve the office of president. The other ...