Public Engagement

MHS Public Programs

 "Making the Presidency": Lindsay M. Chervinsky on John Adams

"The Last American Aristocrat": David S. Brown on Henry Adams

Our Favorite Things Exhibit: objects related to the Adams Family

Sara Martin on a letter from Mary Smith Cranch to Abigail Adams

Hannah Elder on Abigail Adams's Dimity Pocket

Sara Georgini on John Adams's Letterbook

The Object of History: episodes related to the Adams Family

"To Live like John Quincy Adams"

"Stories Told in Wax"

Selections from the MHS Object of the Month

“… the way my grandpa would celebrate it”: John Quincy Adams tries to derail the Centennial Exhibition (July 2024)

Louisa Catherine Adams Reviews John Quincy Adams's Fourth of July Speech (July 2021)

"I have heard Some of the Democratic rejoicing": Abigail Adams's Last Letter to John (October 2018)

“You know the balance of trade was always against me”: Thomas Jefferson and Abigail Adams Go Shopping (April 2016)