When President John Adams died on July 4, 1826, the moment was rife with bizarre coincidences. Not only had the Founding Father died on the Fourth of July, but he also perished on the same exact day ...

John Adams, for what it's worth, reportedly turned down invitation to July 4 events as he still believed it should be ...

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

Independence Day has again brought to top of mind the first tier of our nation’s leaders, namely George Washington, Ben ...

The boy, baptized John Quincy Adams in his great-grandfather's honor, would become the nation's sixth president. Why John Hancock doesn't have a Massachusetts town named after him.

The road to Quincy. Boston traffic is notoriously bad, and Graham twice offered to meet outside of Quincy, the town where John Adams wrote the Massachusetts Constitution and where he lived with ...

John and Abigail Adams returned to their hometown of Quincy, Massachusetts, where Adams spent the next 25 years engaged in public debate through letter writing to both friends and foes. In 1811 ...

So while John Adams, in Philadelphia, did not refrain from criticizing Jefferson in his January 6, 1794, letter to Abigail, in Massachusetts, he did so with care. Jefferson went off Yesterday, and ...

John Adams was assigned the duty of negotiating peace with Great Britain in 1779, two years before George Washington's victory at Yorktown gave the envoy a position of strength.

On June 2, 1775, barely six weeks after British troops and colonial militias had clashed at Lexington and Concord in Massachusetts, John Adams wrote to his wife, Abigail. He was in Philadelphia ...