John adams on october 25, 1764 the reverend smith, abigails father, preached a sermon from the text of matthew. For john came, neither drinking wine or eating bread. John records the story in his memoir, and explains the choice of text as a response to the congregation. He suggests that a portion of the parishioners thought that the son of a small farmer in the middle class of braintree was scarcely good enough to match with the pastors daughter. The reverend smiths cryptic message may have included his more personal reflections, which Charles Francis preferred to disregard. For many reasons, the reverend smith and his wife Elizabeth May have disapproved of the marriage of their daughter. Abigail was not yet 20 years old when she married. Young for the middle of the 18th century, where on average women married at the age of 22. Further, she appears to not have had previous suitors to john adams, whom she met which he was 16. Adams was a full 10 years her senior, and may have been an ad
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
That different can take from it. I think what it means is that, yes, the conventional wisdom that theres a relationship between the money campaigns have and the likelihood of victory, which people have assumed and political scientists have said yes this relationship exists, that is confirmed. Even when turnout is higher and more instability is expected, it exithses. But this doesnt take into account other factors. Its how much campaigns thems raised, doesnt include super p. A. C. S or any of the external independent expenditures that go into Political Campaigns. And there are a slew of other factors at play in any particular race. If the candidate has some terrible gaffe, a scandal that emerges, none of that stuff is accounted for in this calculation. This is purely what the campaign raised versus the vote total. Lets talk about outside spending and the Election Results from this offyear election. Look at Michael Bloomberg, liberal causes spent 2. 3 . Ion, thomas steye; million for lib