Last time in these pages, I wrote about the sharp division within George Washington’s Presidential administration, that between Alexander Hamilton, founder of the Federalist Party, and Thomas ...

John Adams, 30 Oct 1735 - 4 Jul 1826 Exhibition Label Of all the Founding Fathers, John Adams was perhaps the most intellectual and accomplished. ... No obstante, utilizó el puesto como vía hacia la ...

When Washington chose not to run for a third term in 1796 Adams ran for the high office and won becoming the nation’s Second President. While in office, Adams’ most notable accomplishment was ...

When Mary Wollstonecraft's book on recent French political events was published in 1794, John Adams already knew first-hand about revolution. He read the book for the first time in 1796, and ...

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, Adams ...

In 1788, when John Adams returned from Europe to a hero's welcome, he came home to limitless possibilities. ... played a significant role in the election of 1796.

The Adams family’s commitment to these principles did not end with John Adams. His son, John Quincy Adams, carried his father’s torch into an era marked by one of our nation’s most painful ...

In “Making the Presidency,” Lindsay M. Chervinsky argues that John Adams established what it means to be America’s commander in chief. John Adams in the early 1790s, when he was the first ...