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

One of America’s greatest love stories can be understood through more than 1,000 eloquent letters that were sent between John and Abigail Adams – foundational figures in our nation’s early ...

Abigail Adams' first cousin, Dorothy Quincy, was born and raised in the community of Quincy that would later bear the family name. The first lady-to-be married a man born in Quincy, John Adams ...

John Quincy, a prominent figure in the Massachusetts Bay Colony and the grandfather of Abigail Adams. While locals pronounce the city's name as 'Quin-zee,' the Quincy family name is typically ...

"I pray Heaven to bestow the best of Blessings on this House." — John Adams "Abigail, in a letter to a friend, wrote that the building was tolerable only so long as fires were lit in every room.

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 ...

“If John Adams was a Founding Father, then Abigail Adams was a founding mother," current Quincy Mayor Thomas Koch said in a recent telephone interview.Abigail Adams, although she had no formal ...

In March of 1776, four months before the United States claimed independence from Britain, Abigail Adams wrote a letter to her husband John Adams. And it just might be the very first spark that lit ...

The Adams family — John, Abigail, and their descendants, including the nation’s sixth president, John Quincy Adams — embodied the intellectual fortitude and moral courage that defined ...