Biographies

Abigail Adams
Women of the 18th century were more than mothers and housewives. They were writers, activists, mathematicians, and more. They even influenced men in their political thinking. One such woman was Abigail Adams. Abigail Adams was the wife and the mother of a president of the United States. This fact alone makes her unique.

A Look at James Cook
The 18th century was a time of exploration and discovery throughout the world. Every nation was sending their own explorers in search of new lands and wealth. England was a world naval power at this time, and it would be from this nation that one of the most famous explorers originated: James Cook.

Thomas Jefferson Biographies
Thomas Jefferson was a man of many talents. He was a farmer, lawyer, and statesman. While well known for these talents, Jefferson is little known as a philosopher of Eighteenth century Enlightenment.

Life of Johnson
"Boswell's Johnson is consistently and primarily the life of one man. Incidentally it is more, for through it one is carried from his own present limitations into a spacious and genial world. The reader there meets a vast number of people, men, women, children, nay even animals, from George the Third down to the cat Hodge. By the author's magic each is alive, and the reader mingles with them as with his acquaintances. " -- Charles Grosvenor Osgood on Boswell's Life of Johnson.

A Day With Friedrich. (23d July, 1779.)
Have you ever wondered what a typical day was like for a monarch of the 18th century? Find out now by examining this document from the History of Friedrich II of Prussia by Thomas Carlyle.