As Independence Day approaches, it’s worth remembering that America’s Founding Fathers weren’t just fiery revolutionaries — ...

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 ...

Napoleon Sarony, “The Declaration of Independence,” 1843–1853. Harry T. Peters, “America on Stone.” Lithography Collection. Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History This hand-colored ...

The day salutes the founding of the city and county and honors the country’s sixth president for whom Quincy and Adams County ...

A deadlock over the distribution of power threatened to derail the creation of a constitution for the newly formed United ...

He wrote to Abigail that "the second day of July, 1776, will be the most memorable epoch in the history of America." The ...

When Americans celebrate the Fourth of July, we imagine fireworks, flags and a dramatic reading of the Declaration of ...

John Adams, center, the Republican candidate for Virginia attorney general, spoke as he attended one of campaign office kick-off events with Ed Gillespie, left, the GOP nominee for governor, and ...

C ould the Boston Brahmin be the OG snob of the American experiment? Born out of the not-quite-our-kind-dear ethos of the 17th-century Puritans who fled the wild new ways of the O ...

Can the fraught relationship between Thomas Jefferson and John Adams help heal our own hyper ... It started with the election to succeed George Washington in 1796, when Adams narrowly defeated ...

However, John Quincy Adams, unlike his father, enjoyed a second act in public life. Elected to Congress as a representative from Massachusetts in 1830, he became known as a staunch antislavery ...

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 ...