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Abigail Adams was more than just America’s First Lady but also one of the prolific writers of her time.  Unlike any other First Ladies, Adams, as she is fondly called made a name of her own apart from her popular husband. Mrs. Adams was a “gifted letter writer, and the volume, continuity, and literary quality…

Many observers of American history are fond of mentioning Abigail Adams’s famous letter to her husband, written on March 31st, 1776, during the drafting of the Declaration of Independence, as an historical indication that the movement for equal rights for women began simultaneously with the birth of the American nation.  One interesting aspect of this…

Benjamin Franklin believed that, despite the hardships it brought, the American Revolution was an essential result. The revolution was motivated by multiple factors, making it difficult to determine which ones could have been prevented. The British encountered financial problems as a consequence of the French and Indian War, causing them to implement new laws and…

“Founding Brothers” The introduction, discussion questions, suggestions for further reading, and author biography that follow are intended to enhance your reading group’s discussion of Joseph Ellis’s Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation. We hope they will enrich your experience of this Pulitzer Prize-winning study of the intertwined lives of the founders of the American republic–John Adams,…

To act with entire honesty and self-respect, one should always live in a pure atmosphere, and the atmosphere of politics is impure. -Senator Silas Ratcliffe, Democracy In his own lifetime, Henry Adams was famous first for being the grandson of John Quincy Adams, thus the great grandson of John Adams; second for his epic History…