Abigail Adams ran the family farm and household while her husband John served the Revolution.
Her many letters give a vivid view of the era, including her 1776 request that Congress remember the ladies when writing new laws.
She later served as First Lady and was one of the first residents of the White House.
Read her letters online through the Massachusetts Historical Society.
Thomas Jefferson was the principal author of the Declaration of Independence in 1776.
Crispus Attucks was a man of African and Native American descent who was killed in the Boston Massacre…
Benjamin Franklin was a printer, writer, scientist and inventor who became one of the most respected Americans of…
Nathan Hale was a young Connecticut schoolteacher who volunteered to gather intelligence behind British lines in 1776.