Commemorate African-American History Month by learning more about colonial slavery and the early history of Africans brought to New England. This latest in the Abigail Adams Historical Society's series of programs exploring New England slavery is co-sponsored with the Thomas Crane Public Library and will be presented by Emerson College Professor Kerima Lewis.

Free of charge

Institution: Thomas Crane Public Library

Location: 40 Washington St., Quincy

Long before they won the right to vote, early American women, like Abigail Adams, harnessed the power of economic citizenship and made their mark on the world as buyers and consumers. Abigail learned to appraise goods, to act as a retailer, and to develop a critical eye for popular fashion. This exhibit shows how Abigail and a generation of women carved out vital public roles and helped steer the early American economy.

This is the first of four rotating exhibits on display at the Massachusetts Historical Society in 2019. Style & Substance will be on display from February 1 through March 31 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Saturday.

Institution: Massachusetts Historical Society, 1154 Boylston Street, Boston, MA 02215

Fee: Free

Sara Georgini, MHS

There will be a pre-talk reception at 5:30.

Reflecting on his past, President John Adams mused that it was religion that had shaped his family's fortunes and young America's future. Globetrotters who chronicled their religious journeys extensively, the Adamses developed a cosmopolitan Christianity that blended discovery and criticism, faith and doubt. From Abigail Adams’s use of religion during the Revolution to her Victorian descendants’ journeys through foreign faiths, Sara Georgini demonstrates how pivotal Christianity--as the different generations understood it--was in shaping the family's decisions, great and small.

There is a $10 per person fee (no charge for MHS Fellows and Members or EBT cardholders). To register, visit the MHS calendar.

Kimberly Alexander, University of New Hampshire and Sara Georgini, MHS

Antique textiles, images of historical figures, and material culture hold a wealth of information that can enrich personal stories and explain relationships. Adding color and context to the world of early Americans like Abigail Adams, fashion sources can help us explore themes of cultural power and economic citizenship. Two experts on fashion and material culture will guide you through unraveling the stories woven into history’s fabric.

Registration is required at no cost. To register, visit the MHS calendar.

Long before they won the right to vote, early American women, like Abigail Adams, harnessed the power of economic citizenship and made their mark on the world as buyers and consumers. Abigail learned to appraise goods, to act as a retailer, and to develop a critical eye for popular fashion. This exhibit shows how Abigail and a generation of women carved out vital public roles and helped steer the early American economy.

This is the first of four rotating exhibits on display at the Massachusetts Historical Society in 2019. Style & Substance will be on display from February 1 through March 31 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Saturday.

Institution: Massachusetts Historical Society, 1154 Boylston Street, Boston, MA 02215

Fee: Free

The Abigail Adams Birthplace offers its first tours of the season! This opening is timed to coincide with that of the Adams National Historical Park (and coincidentally marks the anniversary of the Battles of Lexington and Concord). The 2019 tour season at the Birthplace will highlight selections from Abigail Adams's letters. Tours are offered on the hour and half hour; last tour at 3:30 p.m.

$5 adults, $1 children

Institution: Abigail Adams Historical Society

Location: 180 Norton St., N. Weymouth, Mass.

The Abigail Adams Historical Society, in partnership with the First Church in Weymouth and North Weymouth Cemetery, will offer special tours of the historic North Weymouth Meeting House District, the backdrop to Abigail Adams's early life. Tours of the 1685 Abigail Adams Birthplace, where Abigail Smith Adams was born in 1744 and where she married John Adams in 1764, will take place at 1:00, 2:00, and 3:30 p.m.; tours of the North Weymouth Cemetery, one of the oldest burying grounds in Massachusetts and the site of Abigail Adams's parents' graves, are scheduled for 1:30 and 3:00 p.m. and will leave from the Birthplace. The First Church in Weymouth (17 Church St.), one of the oldest continuing congregations in the United States and the church where Abigail Adams’s father, Reverend William Smith, served from 1734 to 1783, will offer tours 1:00-4:00 p.m. (The current building, the third on the site, dates from 1833.) In 1776, Reverend Smith read the Declaration of Independence to the congregation, the first time they would have heard it. Tours will feature Reverend Smith’s Bible.

Tour hours: Abigail Adams Birthplace: 1:00, 2:00, and 3:30; North Weymouth Cemetery: 1:30 and 3:00 (tours will begin at the Birthplace); First Church: 1:00-4:00 p.m.

Cost: $5 for Birthplace and Cemetery tours; First Church tours by donation

Institutions: Abigail Adams Historical Society; The First Church in Weymouth; North Weymouth Cemetery

Location: Abigail Adams Birthplace: 180 Norton St., N. Weymouth, Mass., and The First Church in Weymouth: 17 Church St., N. Weymouth, Mass.

Please join us for open hours. Visits are by guided tour only between 1:00 and 4:00 p.m., with tours given on the hour and half hour. The 2019 tour season at the Birthplace will highlight selections from Abigail Adams's letters. Last tour at 3:30 p.m.

$5 adults, $1 children

Institution: Abigail Adams Historical Society

Location: 180 Norton St., N. Weymouth, Mass.

This focus tour will start from the park Visitor Center and will continue to the John Quincy Adams Birthplace and Penn's Hill. Participants will visit Abigail's and John's first home with a focus on Abigail, the "Patriot on the Home front." They will continue to Penn's Hill, where Abigail will recount that day as she and John Quincy watched the Battle of Bunker Hill and the beginning of the Revolutionary War unfold right in front of their eyes.

Institution: Adams National Historical Park

Location: ANHP Visitor Center

There are additions times for this event at: 10:00 a.m., 12:00 p.m., & 2:00 p.m.

This focus tour will start from the park Visitor Center and will continue to the John Quincy Adams Birthplace and Penn's Hill. Participants will visit Abigail's and John's first home with a focus on Abigail, the "Patriot on the Home front." They will continue to Penn's Hill, where Abigail will recount that day as she and John Quincy watched the Battle of Bunker Hill and the beginning of the Revolutionary War unfold right in front of their eyes.

Institution: Adams National Historical Park

Location: ANHP Visitor Center

There are additions times for this event at: 10:00 a.m., 12:00 p.m., & 2:00 p.m.

This focus tour will start from the park Visitor Center and will continue to the John Quincy Adams Birthplace and Penn's Hill. Participants will visit Abigail's and John's first home with a focus on Abigail, the "Patriot on the Home front." They will continue to Penn's Hill, where Abigail will recount that day as she and John Quincy watched the Battle of Bunker Hill and the beginning of the Revolutionary War unfold right in front of their eyes.

Institution: Adams National Historical Park

Location: ANHP Visitor Center

There are additions times for this event at: 10:00 a.m., 12:00 p.m., & 2:00 p.m.

Follow the words and history of four generations of Adamses. John, Abigail, and their descendants were prolific writers. The trove of documents they left behind intimately describe their lives, public service, and Boston from the eve of the Revolution to the turn of the twentieth century.

$15 (general admission) / $5 (BBF members)

More information and purchase tickets at Boston By Foot.

Please join us for open hours. Visits are by guided tour only between 1:00 and 4:00 p.m., with tours given on the hour and half hour. The 2019 tour season at the Birthplace will highlight selections from Abigail Adams's letters. Last tour at 3:30 p.m.

$5 adults, $1 children

Institution: Abigail Adams Historical Society

Location: 180 Norton St., N. Weymouth, Mass.

Please join us for open hours. Visits are by guided tour only between 1:00 and 4:00 p.m., with tours given on the hour and half hour. The 2019 tour season at the Birthplace will highlight selections from Abigail Adams's letters. Last tour at 3:30 p.m.

$5 adults, $1 children

Institution: Abigail Adams Historical Society

Location: 180 Norton St., N. Weymouth, Mass.

Please join us for open hours and a cider-pressing demonstration. An important seasonal activity in colonial times, cider pressing produced one of the most popular beverages consumed by people of all ages through the early nineteenth century.

Visits are by guided tour only between 1:00 and 4:00 p.m., with tours given on the hour and half hour. The 2019 tour season will highlight selections from Abigail Adams's letters. Last tour at 3:30 p.m.

$5 adults, $1 children

Institution: Abigail Adams Historical Society

Location: 180 Norton St., N. Weymouth, Mass.

Please join us for open hours. Visits are by guided tour only between 1:00 and 4:00 p.m., with tours given on the hour and half hour. The 2019 tour season at the Birthplace will highlight selections from Abigail Adams's letters. Last tour at 3:30 p.m.

$5 adults, $1 children

Institution: Abigail Adams Historical Society

Location: 180 Norton St., N. Weymouth, Mass.

Join us at the Thomas Crane Public Library as members of the Boston Women’s Heritage Trail bring to life some of the most important and influential women in Abigail Adams’s life, including her mother, Elizabeth Quincy Smith, her elder sister, Mary Smith Cranch, her daughter, Abigail Adams Smith, her daughter-in-law Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, and her friend Mercy Otis Warren. The women will pay tribute to Abigail and express what it meant to them to have her as a daughter, mother, sister, and friend.

Institution: Boston Women’s Heritage Trail, Thomas Crane Public Library

Location: Thomas Crane Public Library, 40 Washington St., Quincy, MA 02169

Follow the words and history of four generations of Adamses. John, Abigail, and their descendants were prolific writers. The trove of documents they left behind intimately describe their lives, public service, and Boston from the eve of the Revolution to the turn of the twentieth century.

$15 (general admission) / $5 (BBF members)

More information and purchase tickets at Boston By Foot.