One of America’s greatest love stories can be understood through more than 1,000 eloquent letters that were sent between John ...

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.

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 ...

The only fighting in the Quasi-War occurred at sea, and mostly in the Caribbean. But with war at a fever pitch and French ...

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 ...

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 ...