abigail adams

"Querulous, bald, blind, crippled, toothless" John Adams! And those are the compliments! We are back in Quincy and checking out the church that holds TWO presidents' graves, as well as their spouses!  Learn about John Adams' long post-presidency, his death, and the way he is commemorated!

Check out the website at VisitingthePresidents.com for visual aids, links, past episodes, recommended reading, and other information!
Episode Page: https://visitingthepresidents.com/2024/02/13/season-3-episode-2-john-adams-tomb/

Season 1's John Adams Episode-"John Adams and Braintree"

Season 2's John Adams Episode-"John Adams and Peacefield"

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On this day in 1776, Abigail Adams wrote a letter to her husband, John Adams, imploring him and his political colleagues to keep the interests of women in mind.

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In this third episode I'd like us to ask "What Happens to Men".
What happens to men like my father who wasn’t equipped to be a father or a husband, or his father. What chain of events lead to long lasting generation trauma and a struggle to connect for men? 

This episode will focus on a hypothetical case example compiled from the history and stories of America's 6th president, John Quincy Adams.

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You think "Peace" and think "John Adams," right? We head back to Quincy for Peacefield, the home of John, Abigail, and John Quincy Adams, with four generations helping put an imprint on this home. Hear about John's growing political career, presidency, and about the impact of Abigail on his rise!

Check out the website at VisitingthePresidents.com for visual aids, links, past episodes, recommended reading, and other information!
Episode Page: https://visitingthepresidents.com/2022/03/08/season-2-episode-1-john-adams-and-peacefield/ 

Season 1's John Adams Episode: "John Adams and Braintree"

Season 3's John Adams Episode: "John Adams' Tomb" 

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Rosemarie Zagarri of George Mason University, author of a biography of Mercy Otis Warrren tells us about the Revolution's poet, who also wrote one of its first histories.  We also discuss her book  Revolutionary Backlash:  Women and Politics in the Early American Republic ,  and the only authorized biography of George Washington,  David Humphrey's Life of General Washington,  and a fascinating project for which Rosemarie Zagarri is the lead historian,  Mapping Early American Elections, which is a detailed and usable look at American politics from the first federal election until 1824.  

In this episode the team take a detour to some haunted locations in the United States.

Sources for this episode -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1933_Griffith_Park_fire

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/03/28/150-years-of-misfortune-in-l-a-s-griffith-park-a-curse-ghosts-and-now-an-unknown-womans-skull/

https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2014/10/hollywood-sign-haunted

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/couch-place-the-alley-of-death

https://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/20131230/loop/iroquois-theater-fire-almost-forgotten-but-continues-haunt/

https://www.travelchannel.com/interests/history/articles/ghosts-of-gettysburg

https://www.travelchannel.com/interests/haunted/articles/historic-us-ghosts

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2017/10/30/is-the-white-house-haunted-a-history-of-spooked-presidents-prime-ministers-and-pets/

https://www.whitehousehistory.org/press-room-old/white-house-ghost-stories

http://www.historynaked.com/joshua-chamberlain-ghost/

https://www.wearethemighty.com/humor/most-famous-white-house-ghosts/

We talk with Kelly Cobble, Curator at the Adams National Historical Park in Quincy, home to four generations of the Adams family.  We hear about Louisa Catherine Adams's harrowing trip across war-torn Europe in 1815, and about the two Adams birthplaces--the John Adams birthplace is the oldest Presidential birthplace in the nation.  What did these four generations of Adamses have in common?  Courage.  

Today on the pod, we've got four shorter history stories for you. We'll cover the passing of Robert Ashby and his career starting as one of the Tuskegee Airmen, the time Mohandas Ghandi led a march to make salt, a crazy story about the medical miracle cure known as insulin, and how the Boston Tea Party was really rough on women.

Sources:
https://atlantablackstar.com/2021/03/11/robert-ashby-one-of-three-last-surviving-tuskegee-airmen-in-arizona-dies-at-95/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=news_tab&utm_content=algorithm 

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Tuskegee-Airmen

https://flashbak.com/im-a-fat-boy-now-the-diabetes-miracle-1922-420070/

https://www.diabetes.org.uk/about_us/news_landing_page/first-use-of-insulin-in-treatment-of-diabetes-88-years-ago-today

Alcoholism, depression, suicide… you think you know the Adams family? There’s a few details about this family that you may not have heard in history class. Here in episode 15, we explore four generations of Adams from our second US President to the Pulitzer Prize-winning Henry Brooks Adams. With their extraordinary intellect and iron resolve, these men (and the women behind them) made immeasurable contributions not only to the founding of this country, but also to international relations and to the abolishment of slavery. In spite of heart-breaking personal tragedies that plagued every generation of Adams, this family is a fascinating study in patience and perseverance. 

 Episode Edits:

1. Technically, the United Kingdom did not exist until 1801. From 1707-1801 the correct term is Great Britain.
2. There are several illustrations depicting the collapse of John Quincy Adams in Congress on February 21, 1848. One engraving hangs in the National Portrait Gallery in DC and another, by Nathaniel Currier, resides in the Library of Congress. 

 Episode Resources:

 Books:

• John Adams by David McCullough
• John Quincy Adams: American Visionary by Fred Kaplan
• The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams
• The Last American Aristocrat by David S. Brown

 Movies:

• John Adams (2008) starring Paul Giamatti and Laura Linney
• Amistad (1997) starring Morgan Freeman, Anthony Hopkins and Matthew McConaughey

IN THIS EPISODE

We tried to celebrate the presidents, but oops, they're all men. Turns out, we can get behind the First Ladies. Tune in to listen to Kira teach Alexandria about the second ever First Lady of the United States, Abigail Adams.

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