Joseph J. Ellis is the author, most recently, of “The Cause: The American Revolution and Its Discontents.” ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 warned her husband ... the Seneca Falls Convention organizers who began the Suffrage Movement, had first-hand knowledge of the important role of Haudenosaunee women.

Abigail Adams, one of the most influential and important women in the history of the U.S., is being honored Saturday with a new statue in the community just south of Boston where she and husband ...