John Adams rose to prominence in 1770 ... War and recognized the United States as an independent nation; six years later, he became the nation's first vice president under George Washington.

Four years later, like his father, he lost reelection; like his father, he failed to attend his successor’s inauguration. However, John Quincy Adams, unlike his father, enjoyed a second act in ...

John Adams' suggestion that libel, if repressed by the government, would multiply is interesting in light of his own battle several years later with a slanderous Republican press. When he signed ...

Significantly, John Adams did not allude to the matter when ... having received the second-largest number of electoral votes. Four years later, he returned the favor, besting Adams in perhaps ...

John Adams and ... once he and Adams started working together he deepened his respect and affection for him. The low point of their relationship had to be the years immediately following the ...

They had plenty to tell one another during the months (sometimes years ... Lady over three decades later, the couple shared insights on their lives and times. John Adams also recorded his thoughts ...

This journey was, in part, guided by one of America’s earliest champions of liberty – John Adams, a man who shaped ... abolitionist organization. Later, it became instrumental in founding ...