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 ...

John Adams praised his “accurate Judgment, in Cases of Difficulty” and described him as “one of the most sensible men in the world.” Sherman and his committee drafted what came to be known as the ...

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

When John Adams penned a letter to future first lady Abigail Adams on July 3, 1776, he guessed how future generations of ...

The Susan B. Anthony Birthplace Museum will present the second annual historic reenactment of Susan B. Anthony's 1876 speech, "The Declaration of the Rights of Women of the United States," ...

While it sounds glamorous and luxe to be the first people to live in the newly built mansion, the reality was far from it. In ...

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 ...

For all the festivities around July 4, the nation’s founding document, the Declaration of Independence, actually depicts a ...

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 ...