John Adams was born on October 30 ... A sixth child, Elizabeth, was stillborn in 1777. In 1765 Adams took his first steps into public life. Politics absorbed him immediately: there was no mention ...

John Adams was many things: lawyer, diplomat, member of the Continental Congress, and one of the original signers of the Declaration of Independence. Adams was born in Braintree, Massachusetts, in ...

John Adams and Thomas Jefferson ... of history at Hamilton College, talk about Adams and Jefferson. What's the best thing about early American history? Carol Berkin: I have always thought ...

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