Abigail Adams

The gender gap and the GOP's future

2012-11-07 11:45:00

You can bet your Hillary Clinton buttons that one of the biggest chunks of the body politic that political pathologists will be putting under the lab microscope is the gender gap: women’s votes. “Remember the ladies,” Abigail Adams...

Theater review: '1776' at Glendale Centre Theatre

2011-06-30 16:33:04

America's hometowns, found in New England

2010-10-18 00:00:00

It's autumn in New England The days are getting shorter. Wood piles are stacked high. Geese are flying south, and Indian corn is hanging from the door. People in new L.L. Bean flannels stop their cars in the middle of the road snapping pictures or...

Book review: 'First Family' by Joseph J. Ellis

2010-10-31 00:00:00

First Family Abigail & John Adams Joseph J. Ellis Alfred A. Knopf: 304 pp., $27.95 John and Abigail Adams are the most well-known, most-written-about couple in America's Revolutionary generation. Why? Because they left such a well-constructed paper...

Obama White House gets really big pink ribbon for breast cancer awareness (photos here)

2009-10-27 16:34:41

Theater review: 'Mercy Warren's Tea' at the Odyssey Theatre

2009-12-03 21:32:40

Presidential decorating, for better or worse, in 'Dream House: The White House as an American Home'

2009-12-28 16:33:32

Paycheck Fairness Act: Good politics, good policy

2012-06-06 10:33:00

If Maryland's resident pit bull, Sen. Barbara Mikulski, has demonstrated anything in her several decades in Congress and as dean of Senate women, it's a willingness to stand up for the less powerful in society, and she was at it again this week advocating...

The Iron Lady

2012-01-18 23:04:00

Right before watching a screener of The Iron Lady, I started reading a Newsweek with Meryl Streep on the cover. The three page story was a lot more interesting than the two hour movie. It was also a lot more thorough. I found out in the article that...

OMOS students win essay contest

2011-07-11 09:35:00

Two students from Our Mother of Sorrows School earned cash prizes for winning the Great Americans Day Essay Contest sponsored by CTC Foundation, an affiliate of Concurrent Technologies Corporation (CTC).� Kate McGrath's essay won first place, and Noah...

Comments & Curiosities: Adams said it best: Celebrate with a big boom

2011-07-01 13:07:43

You know what Monday is. And, yes, it is a big day. Not only is it Colleen Johns' birthday, like you didn't know that, but it's America's birthday — Uncle Sam, the US-of-A, this place, 235 years old this year. Can you believe it? It hardly looks a...

Southern Winds Theatre announces 2011-12 season

2011-08-24 16:40:23

ballroom felt festively French, as several hundred folks gathered for the Ooo La La Gala, the museum's biggest annual benefit, hosted by Lois Feinblatt and Carolyn Patty Blum.

2012-03-31 00:00:00

At the Adams National Historical Park in Quincy, Mass., you can visit a pair of houses where two presidents were born: John Adams , who led the country from 1797 to 1801, and his son, John Quincy Adams , who served as chief of state from 1825 to 1829. But there were distinguished Adams women as

2010-06-17 15:47:53

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Montpelier Mansion, in Laurel, welcomed such famous travelers as George Washington and Abigail Adams

2004-06-16 00:00:00