John Adams, the Founding Father whose intellect, passion and political philosophy fueled American independence and gave shape to constitutional governments now found around the world, became the first ...
This is the second of two podcast episodes recorded at the George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon. Part one was published on Tuesday. What can be said about George Washington that hasn ...
John Adams, the bookish and brilliant Founding Father who gave both the American Revolution and constitutional government their intellectual foundations, was chosen by the Continental Congress to lead ...
Like Americans today, the people living in the United States in 1826 were preparing to celebrate a milestone for their country. July Fourth of that year marked the 50th anniversary of the Declaration ...
250 years ago today, future president John Adams declared this was “one of the happiest Days of” his life. As he recorded in his journal: This was one of the happiest Days of my Life. In Congress We ...
"Here and there and everywhere, a rambling, roving, vagrant, vagabond life": That was how John Adams characterized his experience as a lawyer who routinely traveled the annual circuit of the courts ...