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

QUINCY — A new children's book about founding mother and local heroine Abigail Adams is sure to enlighten both kids and parents about her underrepresented impact on American history. The book ...

“Abigail Adams: A Life,” on Tuesday at the Adams National Historical Park. Here the National Book Award finalist tells Patriot Ledger reporter Lane Lambert what inspired him to chronicle the ...

As the wife of John Adams, Abigail knew most of the principal players of the Founding generation, and one of the book’s many charms is her well-drawn portraits. Benjamin Franklin—or “Dr ...

As a result, their family papers, including Abigail’s more than 2,100 thoughtful, revealing letters, have been a magnet for scholars and material for a mother lode of Adams books. The writings ...

It wasn’t for nothing that Abigail and John Adams’s grandson, Charles Francis Adams, excluded this letter from his 1841 volume of the couple’s correspondence. In his engaging new book about ...

JOHN AND ABIGAIL ADAMS did not just hope that their son would become President of the U.S. They raised him for the position. Watching the Battle of Bunker Hill from a distance as little John ...

“She did an amazing thing for John," said University of South Carolina history professor Woody Holton, whose 2009 book “Abigail Adams” earned him a Bancroft Prize. “She made him a fortune ...

"She did an amazing thing for John," said University of South Carolina history professor Woody Holton, whose 2009 book "Abigail Adams" earned him a Bancroft Prize. "She made him a fortune while he ...

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