abigail adams writes to jefferson when she learns that his daughter died. she writes a very consoling letter, and jefferson responds very generously, but he makes a mistake. haveys mr. adams and i agreed in almost all things except for one thing. he appointed all those midnight judges. that is enough for abigail to sound off. she comes in with charges against jefferson. jefferson does not know what to say, he comes back and tries to apologize and the exchange a few letters, but abigail is furious and comes in and more or less writes him off and he realizes it's over. it takes benjamin rush it was a , 1812, rush rips on both of them and manages to have each of them quoted, i love him. each of them says that in one way or the other and they hear it and that is enough for me, says jefferson. >> it brings them back together. >> adams makes the first effort, and he says i am sending you some products of -- artisan and jeffersonston being so liberal minded takes this and goes on a long letter on manufacturing in virginia. what adams sent him is two volumes of his

in 1804 abigail adams makes an effort. she writes a very consoling letter. jefferson responds, but he makes a mistake. he makes one complaint. that's enough for abigail to sound off and say what do you mean. she comes in with charges against jefferson. jefferson doesn't know what to say. he comes back and tries to apologize and they exchange a few letters, but abigail's f furrious and writes him off. in 1812 rush works on both of them and manages brilliantly to have them have each quoted and that's enough says jefferson. >> it brings them back together. >> yeah. adams makes the first effort. he says i'm sending you some artisan products of boston to you and jefferson being so little minded he writes a long letter on manufacturing in virginia when what adams sent him was two volumes of his son's lectures that had just been published. then jefferson gets the gift and then he writes an apologetic letter. the correspondence goes on and they both appreciate it. they are aware they're writing for posteriority, jefferson in particular. up to 1819 they avoid any tal

abigail had ensued had not to say of jefferson county is one of the choice on thursday aired. john adams thought it is extraordinary mind and praised him as a gifted writer. lafayette called jefferson up right and enlightened. thomas lee shipman of philadelphia was on a european tour following his schooling. while in france he met jefferson and decided jefferson county is the wisest and most amiable man that i have met in europe. but there were those who didn't care for jefferson. charles carroll of carrollton said jefferson was too theoretical and fanciful to be a good statesman and one of jefferson's enemies in in nicolas, said he thought jefferson was the most intriguing and double faced man in american politics. so these have had the pros and two cons thrown at them since their lifetime and by generations that have followed. the two were similar in some ways and different in many ways. they were different in the sense that they had a very different early the use. hamilton didn't grow up in an impoverished background, but what sociologists would probably call a lower middle-class back

people want her to be margaret fuller or abigail adams. know, talke to, you about -- this is a woman who made a 2000-mile journey from st. petersburg to paris with her seven-year-old son. she -- [indiscernible] she was amazing. she was really brilliant and she survived a lot. but at the same time, she was fragile. she was self pitying. she was a complicated person. in some ways, i think it was freeing and a little bit liberating. you know, her husband was very and he knew he was born for the nation and he had this important role to play and he played it. she did not have to feel that way. she did not have to be this kind of american icon. she could just be herself. she did not take it too seriously. she laughed at everybody else and she laughed at herself, and there's a kind of language that her insecurity was very much part of she was an something would be lost if she had more of attitudeboss" type towards life. yeah, i think there's a paradox between her excepting the constrictions of her life and at the same time working against them th

one of my good friends has discovered that abigail adams was speculating in those romissory notes. she did not wanted to get out, but there was a whole market where these veterans were not being paid and their farms were being foreclosed on. who was foreclosing on the farms? the merchants and bankers. if it sounds like i'm anti-banker, i am anti-veterans being unpaid. the people in boston who didn't -- who tended to have these notes, it was kind of like north carolina with there was a division between the eastern part of the state in the western part of the state. people in the frontier portion ere more poor. the people in the cities had more money. when the veterans go unpaid, they would lose their farms. the veterans seized the courthouse in western massachusetts and said, wait a minute, we're not going to have given our lives and fortunes and honor for our country just to be repossessed and our families be thrown out. eventually what happened is that the rebellion was put down, and i say rebellion just s a fact, not as a judgment. this is a time when the constitution, excuse me,

for whatever reason, john and abigail adams were obsessed with alexander hamilton's sex life. [laughter] and i think today -- that's why i have to say i was bothered -- while i loved the musical, going again to see it, i actually tried to contact lin-manuel and say, can you just stop? because he actually stopped at one point after saying that martha washington named her randy tomcat hamilton, he turns to the audience and he says that's true. it's not true. for somebody who seems sensitive to the idea who have gets to tell your story, i kind of wish he -- wouldn't cost him anything to pull that line out. so i think that's probably more damaging today. >> thank you. dr. knott: i think there is a entleman up front. >> you mentioned the names of several of our presidents and their attitudes towards hamilton. but what was woodrow wilson's attitude towards the hamilton legacy? r. knott: good question. woodrow wilson, i would say a little bit torn. wilson admired hamilton's embrace and advocacy of an energetic executive but he found or certainly bought into the idea that hamilton dis

adams had no problem with that. his own family did not have slaves and abigail's family had one or two, but she also came to dislike it. thebut they were not pioneers in this way but i do find it very interesting late in life, adams got talking about a man named john of carolina county in virginia. he was a jeffersonian, major slaveholder, version at planter, hated hamilton and the bank and so forth and so on. adams writes in the about political questions and about aristocracy and he talks about the importance of education and says he may be being a little easy on him and is also indulging in the language used in virginia. he almost always invariably refers to them as servants. they wouldn't use the word slaves if they could possibly avoid it. sort of applying even though they couldn't. adams said he thought education was so important he said i would recommend this even for all of your servants. what he is really saying is that they ought to be able to read and write as well as everybody else in virginia and everywhere in america so i think not being forward and confronting slavery he is so into reading about the hi

as a matter of fact this was such a huge day that john adams would write home to his wife abigail on july 3 and say july 2 will be an epic day where americans will celebrate their independence forever. you know it wasn't until the mid-1800's that we started celebrating our independence on july 4? so knowing this not by opinion or interpretation but by legal fact by historical fact became independent on july 2 that we must admit that the state existed prior to everything, right? prior to the declaration of independence even. the declaration of independence was not actually fully signed on july 4. july 4 is when the declaration of independence was given to the general public. only been signed by john hancock. he wouldn't be signed by the rest of the representatives of the state until the end of august. now we have to understand on july 2 is there federal government? know because we just thrown it off. on july 4 is the federal government either. there is just the state. our first federal government is forced through the articles of confederation but there's a problem and the problem isn

adams had actually no quarrel with that. he disliked slavery. his family did not have slaves. abigail's family had one or two slaves and she also came to dislike it. they weren't pioneers in this way at all. but i do find a very interesting angle on this. in late in life, adams kept talking about, got right into a man named john taylor of virginia. this man was a jeffersonion, a major slave holder, a virginia soldier and hated the banks and so on. adams is writing to taylor about political questions and a lot about aristocracy and at one point he talks about the importance of education and he says, and he says, maybe being a little easy on taylor, and he's also indulging in the language used in virginia, he almost invariablies referred to taylor's slaves as servants, and they would not use the word slave about their own slaves if they could possibly avoid it. they said that they were servants, sort of implying that the servants could walk, even though they couldn't. and he said that-- adams said he thought education was so important, he said i would recommend this even for all of your s

matter of fact, this was such a huge day that john adams would write hem to his wife, abigail, on july 3rd and say, july 2nd will be an epic day where americans will celebrate their independence forever. it wasn't until the mid-1800's started celebrating our independence on july 4th? so, knowing this, our states, not by opinion or interpretation but by legal fact, by historical fact, became independent states on july 2, then we must admit that the states existed prior to everything. right? prior to the declaration of independence even, by two days temp declaration -- the decoration was not fully signed on july 2nd. july 4th is when it was published to the general republic and only been sound by john hancock and not signed by the rest of the representatives of the states until the end of august. but now we have to understand, on july 2nd, is there a federal government? no, because we have just thrown it off. on july 4th there is no federal government either. there is just the states. now, our first federal government is formed through the articles of confederation. but there's a problem

as a matter of fact, this was such a huge day at john adams would write home to his wife, abigail on july 3rd and say july 2nd will be at that day where americans will celebrate their independence forever. you know it wasn't until the mid-1800s that we started celebrating our independence on july 4th? so knowing this, then our state, not by opinion or interpretinterpret ation, but by illegal fact, historical fact, became independent state on july 2nd, then we must admit that the states existed prior to everything, right? prior to the declaration of independence even by today. the declaration of independence was not actually fully signed on july 4th. july 4th is in the declaration of independence was published to the general public. it had only been signed by john hancock. it wouldn't be signed by the rest of the representatives of the state until the end of august. but now we have to understand on july 2nd, it is very federal government? no, because we have just thrown it off. on july 4th, there is no federal government either. there is just the state. our first federal government is

as a matter of fact, this was such a huge day that john adams would write home to his wife abigail on july 3 and say july 2 will be an epic day where americans will celebrate their independence forever. do you know it wasn't until the mid-1800s that hundreds that we started celebrating our independence on july 4. so knowing this, that our states, not by opinion or interpretation but by legal facts, by historical fact became independent states on july 2, then we must admit that the states existed prior to everything. prior to the declaration of independence by two days. the declaration of independence was not actually fully signed on july 4. july 4 is when the declaration of independence was published to the general public. it had only been signed by john hancock. it wouldn't be signed by the rest of the representatives of the states until the end of august. but now we have to understand, on july 2, is there a federal government? no because we've just thrown it off. on july 4 there is no federal government either. there is just the states. now our first federal government is formed thr

there was an american lady, abigail adams, wife of the second president of the united states is credited with writing in 1775. there's not a new transpired as i wrote you last. at the moment she has all the credit good language purists hated this new meaning to occur, to happen. no permission or transmigration of the very busy variety in the sense of something moving from one state, nothing happening to another's date, something happening. organic chain should not have been. the fact that it might well be american at them instead of the five and 76 aboud made the usage of the most popular in britain that it might've been. the first edition of the oed in the early come of the letter to you from the early 20th century despairs it is a misuse. the dictionary says sands, evidently arresting for misunderstanding such as what have trans fired during his absence he did not know, which is of a confusing way of explaining something. and observing the usage, oed was in the footsteps such as the american who wrote in 18 to this novel use of the word is pretty common in the united states. nor does i