Summary: <p>The Adams Family is one of the more prominent families in American history. They were at the center of the American Revolution, they helped create a new republic, shaped the young nation’s foreign policy, and later were central to the development of the history profession.</p> <p>Fortunately, we know much about their lives because of the countless letters and diaries they’ve left us. And it is up to a team of editors at the Massachusetts Historical Society to help us make sense of it all.</p> <p>On today’s show, <a href="https://womenalsoknowhistory.com/individual-scholar-page/?pdb=111" target="_blank">Dr. Sara Georgini</a> joins Jim Ambuske to talk about what it’s like to edit the Adams Family Papers and the questions they help us answer.</p> <p>Georgini is Series Editor for <em>The Papers of John Adams</em>, and she is also the author of <a href="https://global.oup.com/academic/product/household-gods-9780190882587?cc=us&lang=en&" target="_blank"><em>Household Gods: The Religious Lives of the Adams Family</em></a>, published by Oxford University Press in 2018.</p> <p>We’re joined today by co-host Dr. Anne Fertig, the Washington Library’s Digital Projects Editor.</p>
