John Adams was many things: lawyer, diplomat, member of the Continental Congress, and one of the original signers of the Declaration of Independence. Adams was born in Braintree, Massachusetts, in ...

In Yorktown, Virginia, a British army under the command of Major General Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis, ...

Later that day, a jubilant crowd toppled ... for the great measure of independency is Mr. John Adams of Boston," whom he called the "Atlas of Independence." But Jefferson would be history's ...

While John Adams called for a declaration of independence in the Continental ... "shot heard round the world"), then in Concord. The day ended in a British retreat to Boston.

The center has no home yet, only recently hired a president, but is imagining itself as a multidimensional hub of scholarly ...

John Adams was one of America’s greatest patriots from the Founding generation. From gaining unanimous agreement from state ...

In a few years, it will be the two-hundredth anniversary of John Quincy Adams’ Independence Day speech in which he defined the role of the United States in the world: Wherever the standard of ...

Like John Adams, Joe Biden could not resist using his power to suppress free speech and persecute political opponents.

It encapsulates why Independence Day is so important ... like the Massachusetts cousins, John and Samuel Adams, and by the propaganda skills of Tom Payne in his sensational pamphlet, Common ...