Henry Adams, a grandson and great-grandson of American presidents ... which today means the infusion of technology into virtually every dimension of human existence, has since roughly 1800 been ...

In Henry Adams and the Making of America ... nine volumes with six chapters describing how terrible America was in 1800. Unfortunately, a lot of people read that and think that's a description ...

Henry Adams, not quite twenty-three ... In its opening survey of America in the year 1800, Washington is seen as “a fever-stricken morass,” the “shapeless, unfinished Capitol” backed ...

Additional reasons are the dozen or so biographical volumes and special studies of Henry Adams published in the last 30 years that have enhanced his stature and established him as a major American ...

The month-long election of 1800, which Adams would lose to personal friend and political rival Thomas Jefferson, had begun a day earlier. Construction of the executive mansion, in the heart of the ...

A foundational text for every American Studies program, and one of the most original books published by an American author, “The Education of Henry Adams (An Autobiography)” ought to be read ...

Photo: Annie Schlechter One imperative of my decorating is candlelight,” says author and architectural historian Michael Henry Adams of his Harlem apartment, dense with objects, layered with mea ...