Quincy doesn't merely boast two presidents, but two of the most remarkable: John Adams and his son, John Quincy Adams. Both participated in the most pressing political and social questions of ...

The Alien and Sedition Acts was enacted by John Adams’s Federalist administration in preparation for a war that didn’t actually happen.

"I find living in the 1790s kind of refreshing," says Kurt Graham, whose career took him from Salt Lake City to Boston.

Facts are stubborn things ... "As time would show, John Adams's part in the drama did increase his public standing, making him in the long run more respected than ever," McCullough wrote.

This journey was, in part, guided by one of America’s earliest champions of liberty – John Adams, a man who shaped not only his own time but laid the foundations for justice that resonate today.

John Adams, the bookish and brilliant Founding Father who gave both the American Revolution and constitutional government their intellectual foundations, was chosen by the Continental Congress to ...