Joseph J. Ellis is the author, most recently, of “The Cause: The American Revolution and Its Discontents.” ...

John and Abigail Adams fully believed that “all men are ... Graham is ushering in a new point of access for scholars and history buffs, and — perhaps most importantly — educators and student ...

John Adams was cold. John Adams was wet. But John Adams was also determined. Having grown up in New England, he had known many chilly winters, but since he had left York on November 11 ...

John Adams, my favorite president ... and “unwinnable” case became a defining moment in our nation’s legal history and a powerful victory for abolitionists. John Quincy argued that the ...

I have long been interested in Numa as an exemplary figure in the history of Western political thought from Cicero and St. Augustine to Machiavelli and Rousseau. In fact, John Adams had made a ...

Can the fraught relationship between Thomas Jefferson and John Adams help heal our own hyper-polarized politics? Monticello ...

Felix Lipov/Shutterstock While the elder John Adams had enthusiasm for ... Portolano commented in an article for The History of Science Society. Adams said, “It is with no feeling of pride ...