President John Adams, however, pegged the anniversary for July 2, one miss in a letter that’s otherwise eerie for its accuracy and the way it links our generation to the one that fought the ...

He graduated from Harvard in 1787 and just seven years later, in 1794, President Washington appointed him the American minister to the Netherlands. He was just 26 years old. John Quincy Adams ...

During the American Revolution, the legal separation of the Thirteen Colonies from Great Britain occurred on July 2 ... John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, the only signers to later serve as ...

Perhaps the clearest examples of distinguished public careers taking a back seat to a mixed legacy as president are those of John and John Quincy Adams. Although John Adams has been the subject of ...

When he was young, John Quincy Adams was told by his father, President John Adams, “If you do not rise to the head of your country…it will be owing to your own laziness….” At age 26 ...