When President John Adams died on July 4, 1826, the moment was rife with bizarre coincidences. Not only had the Founding ...

From the moment John Adams entered the presidency in 1797, the United States was in a state of undeclared war with France. The Quasi-War, as it was known, dominated his presidency, monopolizing ...

As today marks July 4th, it's a fitting time to reflect on a remarkable event in American history that unfolded on this very ...

U.S. PRESIDENTS (1735–1826); BRAINTREE, MASSACHUSETTS. In addition to being the United States’s second president after George Washington, John Adams was a prominent lawyer and political author.

Somehow, I feel sorriest for John Quincy Adams (1767-1848) of all the one-term presidents. He was the sixth president of the United States , son of the second, John Adams the revolutionary.

In 1797, John Adams became the second American president, having won election by three votes in the Electoral College. Although George Washington had set a momentous precedent by relinquishing power — ...

John Quincy Adams's path to the presidency was shaped significantly by his parents. At 11 years of age, he began accompanying his father on diplomatic missions to Europe, ...

This year, Independence Day coincided with another historic birthday: Quincy’s. It has been 400 years since English colonists ...

When John Quincy Adams left the White House after his defeat in the election of 1828, he thought his public life had ended. His wife, Louisa Catherine Adams, welcomed the ...

John Adams, in the final months of his administration, became the first American president to live in the new executive mansion, later dubbed the White House, on Nov. 1, 1800.

In 1788, when John Adams returned from Europe to a hero's welcome, he came home to limitless possibilities. The presidency would belong to George Washignton, of course, but what office would suit ...