About

The wife of the second president of the United States and the mother of the sixth, Abigail Smith Adams is famous for her admonition to her husband to "remember the Ladies", and was a woman well ahead of her time. Essentially self-taught from her prestigious parents' expansive library, Abigail was an early proponent for women's education and rights as well as the abolition of slavery. This program will explore the fascinating, intelligent woman behind two U.S. presidents.