Beehive Blogs

A selection of posts related to the Adams family from The Beehive, the blog of the Massachusetts Historical Society

“The Sublimity of it, charms me!”: John Adams and the Boston Tea Party
“Light, airy, and genteel”: Abigail Adams on French Women
A Revolutionary President
A Revolutionary Reunion: Lafayette and John Adams
I Lived like John Quincy Adams for a Week (and This is What I Learned)
“He plants trees for the benefit of later generations”: John Quincy Adams’s Motto
John Quincy and Louisa Catherine Adams: The Original Tortured Poets
An American Prince in London: John Quincy Adams Meets Prince Saunders
Nabby and John Quincy Adams: Life Strangers
Teaching the Family Tradition: George Washington Adams and John Adams II Learn to Write and Preserve Letters
“Three Generations Have Advanced in a Century” : From John Adams to Charles Francis Adams II
Marian “Clover” Hooper Adams, Dog Portraitist?

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