Collected Item: “Living in an Epidemic: What Did Abigail Do?”
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Living in an Epidemic: What Did Abigail Do?
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screenshot from the Massachusetts Historical Society website
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A blog post from the Massachusetts Historical Society blog The Beehive, this post studies how Abigail Adams responded to the 1776 smallpox epidemic. Looking through primary sources in Adams' own words, the author studies how Abigail Adams responded to an epidemic in her own time period.
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GREATERBOSTON, Covid-19, Museums & Collections, Collecting Institutions: Massachusetts Historical Society, response, primary source, blog
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https://www.masshist.org/beehiveblog/2020/05/living-in-an-epidemic-what-did-abigail-do/
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Gwen Fries, Adam Papers
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2020-04-30