Explores the 54year marriage between john and Abigail Adams. She uses the couples letters as evidence of their strong and successful partnership. Professor gist spoke at a celebration of john and Abigail Adams 250th wedding anniversary in massachusetts. This 45 minute event was cohosted by the Massachusetts Historical Society and the Abigail Adams historical society. And i am thrilled and honored to present our keynote speaker shes a Stanford University historian and a senior scholar at the institute for gender research. She is the author of numerous articles reviews in books. Among them are of course the world of Abigail Adams, which won the Herbert Feist award from the american historical association. Also Abigail Adams a rising life and her most recent book having to do with the adams is abigail and john portrait of a marriage which she will discuss today. This book was a finalist for the George Washington prize. Edith has appeared widely in the media, talking about the adams. And s
The 45 Minute Program was cohosted by the Massachusetts Historical Society and the Abigail Adams historical society. I will start by introducing our first speaker, if in bullock is the author of revolutionary brotherhood freemasonry, and also the author of american revolution. In addition to being a fulbright scholar in japan, he has also served at many venues, including on Good Morning America and all things considered. Our other speaker is a doctorate at the university of melbourne and has specialized training in editing from Arizona State university, and neil was up until recently a editor at the adams papers and worked at the university of South Carolina and earned a masters degree in public history from North Carolina state. So i want to welcome steve, our first speaker. [applause] thank you. On the last day of march, 1776 three month before america broke free from britain, Abigail Adams declared that john should have broken free. Let me find my slides. Let me try to get this goin
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Abigail adams. She uses their letters as evidence of their strong and successful partnership. Professor gelles spoke regarding the 250th wedding anniversary of john and abigail. This 45 minute event was covered cohosted by the Massachusetts Historical Society and the Abigail Adams historical society. And i am thrilled and honored to present our keynote speaker, edith gelles, she is a Stanford University historian and the scholar at Clayman Institute for gender research. She is the author of numerous articles, reviews, and books among them are portia the world of Abigail Adams, which won the award from the american historical association, also Abigail Adams writing life, and also her most recent book, abigail and john portrait of a marriage. This was a finalist for the George Washington prize. Edith has appeared widely in the media talking about the adamses. She has also been, among her appearances has been cspans first ladies series. She is currently working on editing a collection of
And john adams and their son and his wife. This is from an event marking john and Abigail Adams wedding anniversary. The program was cohosted by the Massachusetts Historical Society and the Abigail Adams historical society. I will start by introducing our our first speaker. Bullock is the author of revolutionary brotherhood freemasonry, and also the author of american revolution. In addition to being a fulbright scholar in japan, he has also served at many venues, including on Good Morning America and all things considered. Sarah mann 10 will be presenting a paper in tandem. Sarah martin will be presenting a paper in tandem. She has a doctorate of the university of melbourne and has specialized training in editing from Arizona State university, and neil was up until recently a editor at the adams papers and holds a doctorate in history from university of South Carolina and earned a masters degree in public history from North Carolina state. So i want to welcome steve, our first speaker