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3 days ago · Summary. John Quincy Adams was one of the most significant statesmen-intellectuals of the Early American Republic. Highly intelligent, well-traveled, and massively educated, Adams was a Christian nationalist who believed that the American Republic was destined to be a shining example of democracy and liberty to the rest of the world.
3 days ago · In 1764 Adams married Abigail Smith, a minister’s daughter from neighbouring Weymouth. Intelligent, well-read, vivacious, and just as fiercely independent as her new husband, Abigail Adams became a confidante and political partner who helped to stabilize and sustain the ever-irascible and highly volatile Adams throughout his long career. The ...
4 days ago · Abigail Adams. Posted in Politics From Abigail Adams to Jill Biden, We’ve Been Arguing about First Ladies since 1787. by Lindsay M. Chervinsky July 4, 2024 July 3, 2024.
5 days ago · Abigail Adams was more than a wife to one president and mother to another; she had a first-hand view of many of the key moments in the American Revolution — and she documented them in her letters to family and friends.
4 days ago · From Abigail Adams to Jill Biden, We’ve Been Arguing about First Ladies since 1787. As the president’s family discusses his future, it’s a good time to remember the important roles first ladies...
4 days ago · Abigail Adams wrote a letter to future president John Adams to "remember the ladies" while drafting the Declaration of Independence. The country's first ladies play a significant and unique...
22 hours ago · Distinguished Professor Randall Woods. Randall Woods, a Distinguished Professor of history at the U of A, has published a new biography, John Quincy Adams: A Man for the Whole People. Woods describes the biography, which he spent eight years working on, as one-third travelogue, one-third family history and one-third political-diplomatic history.
