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 ...

Letter shares future first lady's views on U.S. politics, life abroad June 18, 2011— -- Abigail Adams wrote thousands of letters in her lifetime, but a newly discovered letter sheds light on ...

2015-01-11T20:00:09-05:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/1f3/20150111200516003_hd.jpgEdith Gelles talked about the 54-year marriage between John and Abigail Adams ...

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 ...

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 ...

The reenacted wedding reception will take place at the Abigail Adams Birthplace in Weymouth Friday evening. A performance of songs based on the famous letters between the first power couple ...

More than 220 years after it was sent, a letter written by Abigail Adams, the wife of the second U.S. president, has resurfaced. Margaret Hogan, managing editor of the Adams Papers at the ...

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 ...

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 ...