John Quincy Adams. Both participated in the most pressing political and social questions of their day − independence from Great Britain and independence of America's enslaved population.

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 ...

After John Wood and Willard Keyes settled on the eastern bank of the Mississippi River in the 1820s, they petitioned the Illinois Legislature to create “Adams County”, with their founding ...

John Adams remains the most endearing of the New Englanders who won our independence—perhaps as flinty as the rest, yet so irresistibly human, ingenuous, American…an optimist in spite of ...

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 ...

The display of pyrotechnics has been a big part of Independence Day from the outset. Founding Father John Adams saw it coming. Commemoration of America’s independence “ought to be solemnized ...

Our historical remembrances on Independence Day, insofar as we bother with them ... the poet of the early republic’s civic identity, John Adams was its driving force. It was Adams who was ...

On March 4, 1801, John Adams rose before dawn. It was his last day as president ... things about free speech on America’s path to independence, but once in power, he passed arguably the most ...