Quincy tapped the same sculptor behind the statues of John Hancock and John and Abigail Adams at the Hancock Adams Common – Sergey Eylanbekov. The John Quincy Adams statue was commissioned ...

For some people, becoming president of the United States marks the apex of their ambition. However, it is not always the high point of their careers in public service. Perhaps the clearest ...

The Adams family — John, Abigail, and their descendants, including the nation’s sixth president, John Quincy Adams — embodied the intellectual fortitude and moral courage that defined ...

John Quincy Adams, Abigail Adams, Louisa Catherine Adams, and their descendants are given their rightful place among the monuments of Washington, D.C. A memorial to the Adams family will serve as ...

The sculptures will depict First Lady Abigail Adams, an early women’s rights advocate and close adviser to her husband John Adams, and Elizabeth Freeman, the first enslaved African American woman to ...

Others in the Adams family were also dedicated to serving our nation. Abigail Adams, John's wife and John Quincy's mother, was herself a significant political thinker whose advocacy for women's ...

“Remember the ladies,” Abigail Adams wrote to her husband when ... we are determined to foment a rebellion.” John Adams and the other signers did pretty much forget the ladies—but the ...

Jeffrey Rosen, president of the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, began the discussion by describing the deep commitment of John and Abigail Adams to self-improvement and self-mastery ...

John Adams, the bookish and brilliant Founding ... "Without consulting [his wife] Abigail, Adams accepted Congress' offer to return to Europe as minister plenipotentiary to negotiate peace with ...

Quincy plans to acquire multiple downtown properties to make way for two projects celebrating the city's history. The projects include the Adams Presidential Library and a small pocket park ...