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In addition to being the United States’s second president after George Washington, John Adams was a prominent lawyer and political author. He’s also remembered for the people he surrounded ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – After the death of John Adams, I was talking to my friend, Skip. “I’m in my 50s,” he said. “The players would come and go, but John Adams was always there.” ...

This journey was, in part, guided by one of America’s earliest champions of liberty – John Adams, a man who shaped not only his own time but laid the foundations for justice that resonate today.

Between 1778 and 1788, John Adams served his country as a diplomat in France, the Netherlands, and Great Britain. His independent, unbending temperament was not ideal for diplomacy, and his ...

Donor-Advised Funds Support KQED by using your donor-advised fund to make a charitable gift. One of my favorite moments in John Adams’ 2008 autobiography Hallelujah Junction comes when Adams, as a ...