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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

John and Abigail Adams wrote over a thousand letters to each other. They had plenty to tell one another during the months (sometimes years) that John was away from home helping found a new nation.

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 ...