All posts tagged "Abigail Adams"
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8.5KMassachusettsJohn and Abigail Adams Give Hamilton a Review – No Stars
There was no love lost between Alexander Hamilton and John Adams. Hamilton famously castigated Adams in a pamphlet published in 1800 entitled,...
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11.6KMassachusetts5 People Who Threw Shade on George Washington
George Washington possessed a unique set of qualities that inspired the people of 13 British colonies to create a new country. He...
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9.1K2MassachusettsMary Gray Bidwell, Connecticut River Goddess, Dies Too Soon To Help Her Husband
Mary Gray Bidwell and her husband Barnabas resembled in many ways John and Abigail Adams. Both belonged to the local gentry, and...
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22.5K4ConnecticutEight Things You Didn’t Know About the Pumpkin (But Want To)
If the English colonists knew how much pumpkin they’d eat when they got to New England, they might have had second thoughts...
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6.2K4MassachusettsJohn Adams’ Seriously OCD Nephew Founds the Boston Athenaeum
The stately Boston Athenaeum at 10-1/2 Beacon St. owes its storied existence to William Smith Shaw, the obsessive, sickly, curmudgeonly, hard-drinking nephew...
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18.1K1Massachusetts11 Fascinating Facts About James Otis, the Revolutionary Who Went Insane
James Otis made taxation without representation a cause of the American Revolution, but when war broke out he had pretty much disappeared...
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