As David McCullough points out in his biography John Adams, the college then consisted of four buildings and seven faculty members. At Harvard, Adams cultivated his appetite for reading and ...

John Adams was born on October 30, 1735, in Braintree, Massachusetts. His father, a farmer and deacon, hoped that Adams would enter the clergy, but his Harvard professors thought his propensity ...

John Adams, the nation’s first vice president, called it “the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived.” In 1796, with George Washington’s endorsement ...