John Adams was born in the American colonies ... In 1773 Samuel Adams, John's cousin and a revolutionary leader, got his hands on letters written by Massachusetts governor Thomas Hutchinson.

While John Adams called for a declaration of independence ... hand in pulling down than building up." Adams knew the American Revolution had to build up a new government, not merely destroy ...

With the 1824 election approaching, Secretary of State John Quincy Adams probably thought he was President James Monroe’s ...

Legacy John Adams supported building a strong defense system and remains referred to as the “Father of the American Navy.” Because Adams believed in the elite idea of Republicanism and didn’t trust ...

After John Wood and Willard Keyes settled on the eastern bank of the Mississippi River in the 1820s, they petitioned the ...

America’s first armed conflict with a foreign nation following the American Revolution was not the War of 1812, but rather a ...

John Adams (Paul Giamatti) is a respected lawyer and farmer in Boston. After the Boston Massacre he is sought as a defense counsel for the British sentries involved by their commander, Captain Thomas ...

An extremely rare 17th century coin owned by Founding Father John Adams' family has sold for ... was minted in pre-Revolution Boston. It weighs just 1.1 gram and has a silver value of just over ...

But if Jefferson was the poet of the early republic’s civic identity, John Adams was its driving ... By and large, the American Revolution was not an innovating upheaval, but a conservative ...