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

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 ...

One of America’s greatest love stories can be understood through more than 1,000 eloquent letters that were sent between John and Abigail Adams – foundational figures in our nation’s early ...

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 ...

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 ...

The “fellow citizens” of Quincy of “worthy character” described in the letter included Adams’ devoted and patriotic wife Abigail; boyhood chum and fellow revolutionary John Hancock ...

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 ...

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.

Abigail Adams, although she had no formal education, was a prolific letter writer who often advised her husband on affairs of state. “She was speaking about issues of slavery, she was talking ...

The Massachusetts State House boasts one of the oldest public art collections in the country ... The sculptures will depict First Lady Abigail Adams, an early women’s rights advocate and close adviser ...

Regarding the letter "Missouri’s abortion bill will ... of forced pregnancy inspired me to look up a famous comment by Abigail Adams in a March 1776 letter to her husband John Adams.