[The following essay discusses Abigail Adams and her husband, John Adams.] John Adams's travels extended from his journey in August 1774 to Philadelphia, where he spent much of the next two and a half years as a member of the Continental Congress,...

Abigail Smith Adams is best known to the literary world for the letters she wrote during the half century crucial to U.S. nationhood. She is also historically important because she married John Adams (1735-1826), the second president of the United...

American First Lady Abigail Adams (1744-1818), an early proponent of humane treatment and equal education for women, is considered a remarkable woman for her times. Perhaps best known for her prolific letter writing, she is credited with having a...

(b. November 11, 1744; d. October 24, 1818) Wife of President John Adams and mother of President John Quincy Adams, noted for her correspondence. Abigail Smith Adams is best known for the letters she wrote for over a half century, but also she is...

Source: Adams, Charles Francis, ed. Familiar Letters of John Adams and His Wife Abigail Adams During the Revolution (1876). Freeport, NY: Books for Libraries Press, 1970. In this excerpt from a 1777 letter, Abigail Adams (1744–1818) describes...

Abigail Adams Born November 11, 1744 (Weymouth, Massachusetts) Died October 28, 1818 (Quincy, Massachusetts) Founding mother, letter writer, political adviser, wife and mother of U.S. presidents Abigail Adams was the wife of John Adams (1735 Library....

Born November 22, 1744Weymouth, MassachusettsDied October 28, 1818Quincy, Massachusetts Second First Lady of the United States, women's rights...

Abigail Smith Adams (November 11, 1744 – October 28, 1818) was the wife of John Adams, the second President of the United States, and is seen as the first Second Lady of the United States and the second First Lady of the United States though the...

Abigail Adams laughs nervously and says she is embarrassed to mention this in public, but she was pregnant with her second child that fateful evening in 1770. As a result, she was at her home in downtown Boston, because home, after all, is where...

Identifying herself as a feminist historian, Edith B. Gelles takes a topical rather than chronological approach in her study of the life of Abigail Adams, wife of the second president of the United States and mother of the sixth president. Referring to her...

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 that his capacity for grief was so exhausted that death "has no sting left for...

First Lady Laura Bush paid tribute Monday to "one of America's most beloved first ladies" — Dolley Madison — at the unveiling of a coin in Madison's honor."America's first ladies have guided, comforted and sustained our nation in times of trial and triumph," Mrs. Bush...

This essay explores the life and accomplishments of Abigail Smith Adams, wife of second president of the United States John Adams. Abigail Adams, an intellectual and politically astute person, fought for women's rights and tried to persuade her husband to do the same.