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Edith gelles, she is a Stanford University historian and the scholar at Clayman Institute for gender research. She is the author of numerous articles, reviews, and books among them are portia the world of Abigail Adams, which one the award from the american historical association, also Abigail Adams writing life, and also abigail and john portrait of a marriage. Edith has appeared widely in the media talking about the adamses. Among her appearances has been cspans first ladies series. I would like you to welcome edith gelles. [applause] according to adams family lore, when Abigail Adams marrie...

John adams on october 25, 1764 the reverend smith, abigails father, preached a sermon from the text of matthew. For john came, neither drinking wine or eating bread. John records the story in his memoir, and explains the choice of text as a response to the congregation. He suggests that a portion of the parishioners thought that the son of a small farmer in the middle class of braintree was scarcely good enough to match with the pastors daughter. The reverend smiths cryptic message may have included his more personal reflections, which Charles Francis preferred to disregard. For many reasons, ...

He is talking about lets make peace with everybody else and go after these guys. Lets attack the apaches and end these raids on new mexico and other spanish settlements. What makes it so difficult to defend new mexico and other spanish settlements . What is the strategic difficulty . Sam . It is a big place. It is a large colony. It is thinly settled, so it is not densely populated. You have a large area with a lot of outlying ranches and small villages. What is the great danger for a Spanish Ranch in the 1750s . Yeah. Go ahead. The apaches could burn your house, do a little dance, and leave b...