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

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Abigail Adams gave birth to six children, three daughters and three sons, four of whom would live to adulthood. One of those four, John Quincy, would achieve the office of president. The other ...

It has a ferocity that is literally written into the score, but also an absence of resolution as it looks back to suffrage with ... setting of a letter from Abigail Adams to her husband, John ...