Abigail’s Revenge: How the Women’s Movement Shook Up America
Komansky Room, The Westport LibraryIn the spring of 1776, Abigail Smith Adams warned her husband John of a “Ladies’ rebellion” (“we will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice or representation”) if women’s concerns were not recognized at the nation’s founding. The future U.S. president mocked his wife and dismissed her pleas. But […]