Joseph Warren was a key leader of the American Revolution, mobilizing troops and managing a circle of spies. But he's mainly ...

The American Revolution and Its Discontents." His “The Great Contradiction: The Tragic Side of the American Founding” will be ...

The couple’s letters provide an extraordinary window on the revolt brewing 250 years ago. June 3, 2025 at 5:45 a.m. EDTToday at 5:45 a.m. EDT Warning: This graphic ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by John Adams’s Shakespeare adaptation has been trimmed since its premiere, but still struggles with setting a flood of dense Elizabethan verse.

John Adams has written operas that spring from world events - "Nixon In China," "The Death Of Klinghoffer," "Doctor Atomic." But the great composer's newest work, premiering at the Metropolitan ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the pantheon of New England-born patriots, no two men stood higher than Benjamin Franklin and John Adams. And in the New England pantheon no two so cordially disliked each other, unless you ...

There is currently no memorial to John Adams, John Quincy Adams and their family in Washington. Congress authorized the Adams Memorial Commission to fix this oversight. I serve as the chair of the ...

Few presidents have been as intelligent and eclectically versed as John Quincy Adams. One of his favorite ... astronomical observatories in the early 19th century, there were none present in ...

I am an Adams Memorial Foundation Scholar and have written an op-ed for them. When John Adams became the second president of the United States in 1797, he inherited from George Washington a new ...

John David Adams, son of Vernon Earl and Florence Naomi Surina Adams, was born Oct. 28, 1962, in Bonne Terre. He departed his life Friday, March 7, 2025, at his home in Scott City at the age of 62 ...