When President John Adams died on July 4, 1826, the moment was rife with bizarre coincidences. Not only had the Founding ...

While it sounds glamorous and luxe to be the first people to live in the newly built mansion, the reality was far from it. In ...

When John Adams became the second president of the United States in 1797, he inherited from George Washington a new experiment in government and a bit of a mess. The country’s two political ...

President John Adams rejected July 4 celebrations, insisting July 2 marked true American independence. Learn the story behind ...

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.

The fourth of July may be synonymous with freedom in the United States, but around the world it has a very different meaning.

John Adams thought July 2 would be marked as a national holiday for generations to come: “[Independence Day] will be the most memorable Epocha, in the History of America. I am a ...

Three US presidents died on July 4, all nation-makers. Two of them, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, died on the same day in ...

The Adams family’s commitment to these principles did not end with John Adams. His son, John Quincy Adams, carried his father’s torch into an era marked by one of our nation’s most painful ...