One of America’s greatest love stories can be understood through more than 1,000 eloquent letters that were sent between John ...

Edith Gelles and Jim Taylor talked about this letter that was written by Abigail Adams to John Adams as well as the influence of women at the time. Author Edith Gelles and Massachusetts Historical ...

On October 25, 1764, Abigail wed John Adams, commencing a partnership characterized, and perhaps enriched, by separation. Between 1765 and 1772, she bore five children, one of whom, John Quincy ...

If you’ve watched the HBO miniseries on founding father John Adams, you probably recall the scene in which his wife Abigail inoculates her young children against smallpox by inserting pus from ...