How accurate is John Adams miniseries?

This is in response to Danielle’s comment,
Do you know how much of the mini series is actually historically accurate? Most, parts, all, very little?
Well, it is a matter of opinion, of course, but I think that the mini-series is surprisingly accurate. David McCullough, the author, is pretty impressed with it. Here’s a [...]

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Favorite Adams?

Just needed to try this new poll application.

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John Adams breaks records!

The HBO mini-series won 13 Emmys- that’s a record! I’m so happy that they won. All of the winners most definitely deserved the award.
Back to work!

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Ellis’s take on a “romantic and intellectual bond”

Pulitzer Prize winning historian Joseph J. Ellis will remain at Knopf for his next book, an untitled work on the romantic and intellectual bond between Abigail and John Adams. Ash Green bought world rights from John Taylor “Ike” Williams at Kneerim & Williams, and pub date is presently scheduled for spring 2010. Green, who announced [...]

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Full Collection of Adams Letters

I’m on a bit of a quest- I need to find all of the Adams’ letters. Abigail wrote John Quincy a letter shortly after his arrival at Harvard as well as her sister Mary, but I can’t find many of John and Abigail’s letters to their children or others. The Massachusetts Historical Society has some [...]

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Musings on the Muse of the Revolution

I’m reading this book, The Muse of the Revolution about Mercy Otis Warren, a playwright and historian of the American Revolution.
My Complaints thus far:
1. Who is Mercy Otis Warren? Though Stuart calls her by her first name, I still feel like I do not know her or her personality. Show me who she is and [...]

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