The day salutes the founding of the city and county and honors the country’s sixth president for whom Quincy and Adams County ...

Before the Independence Day fireworks this week, try this short quiz on America’s popular books published during the ...

How many have fallen we know not. The constant roar of the cannon is so distressing that we cannot Eat, Drink or Sleep.” This ...

John and Abigail Adams knew where American history was headed The couple’s letters provide an extraordinary window on the revolt brewing 250 years ago. June 3, 2025 at 5:45 a.m. EDT Today at 5: ...

Does that change the meaning of his radical early work? The composer is an undeniable part of the classical music canon. ... Ad Policy John Adams in Barcelona, Spain, 2023.

John Adams has been called America's greatest living composer. His adaptation of Shakespeare's "Antony and Cleopatra" opens at the Metropolitan Opera, in New York, next week.

A new park honoring John Quincy Adams is being built in his native Quincy on the former site of Acapulco's Family Restaurant and Cantina. The park will feature a bronze statue of Adams, along with ...

However, John Quincy Adams, unlike his father, enjoyed a second act in public life. Elected to Congress as a representative from Massachusetts in 1830, he became known as a staunch antislavery ...

And when John Adams sputtered, he rose to heights of incomparable eloquence. He reduced Franklin to the love child of Machiavelli and the Jesuits, the greatest imposter on earth “since the days ...

So while John Adams, in Philadelphia, did not refrain from criticizing Jefferson in his January 6, 1794, letter to Abigail, in Massachusetts, he did so with care. Jefferson went off Yesterday, and ...

Their influence predates the Revolutionary War. John Adams rose to prominence in 1770, when he defended eight British soldiers who were charged with murder after they fired into a group of ...

American astronomy thrives today largely because of the underpinnings achieved by John Quincy Adams in his far-reaching “light-houses of the skies” campaign.