According to the International Women’s Day website, the idea begins in 1776 with Abigail Adams’ prescient encouragement to ...

See 8 great campaign slogans » Back then, presidential candidates didn't actively campaign. In fact, Adams and Jefferson spent much of the election season at their respective homes in Massachusetts ...

I think Abigail fueled the fire of John's anger. Douglas Ambrose: Although Adams and Jefferson developed their relationship in Philadelphia in 1775-1776, when Abigail was back in Braintree ...

Adams could barely contain [his criticism]."— Historian Joseph Ellis On May 15, 1776, the delegates to the Continental Congress passed John Adams' resolution "to declare the United Colonies free ...

While John Adams called for a declaration of independence in the Continental Congress, a down-on-his-luck Englishman named Thomas Paine sounded the clarion call for revolution in January 1776 ...

On July 2, 1776, the Second Continental Congress voted ... is most indebted for the great measure of independency is Mr. John Adams of Boston," whom he called the "Atlas of Independence." ...

A letter from future first lady Abigail Adams to her husband, John Adams, in 1776 includes the line, "Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could." This message is interpolated into Wolfe's ...