As summer approaches, don’t forget your history. Here’s a presidential lesson or two. John Quincy Adams — despite his great ...

A new Pope and an old question: must politics reject religion? The pursuit of politics is religion, morality, and poetry all ...

John Adams has stepped down suddenly as president of Virginia Military Institute’s Board of Visitors according to the school. Bill Wyatt, secretary of the board and VMI’s executive officer ...

The bitter election of ... between the vice president’s private joke and the presidential scandal. In 1796, Jefferson was narrowly defeated for the presidency by Adams and, under Article II ...

Jefferson President of ... parties, the election of 1800 quickly devolved into a cutthroat contest. The main factions were organized around personalities—John Adams, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas ...

His son, John Quincy Adams, was sworn in as president on March 4 ... his way to the presidency in 1825 through a contentious election decided by the House of Representatives.

Susan Hayase and Tom Izu fell in love while fighting for Japanese American reparations. “Tom was giving a speech, and he’s clutching the lectern and talking really fast,” Hayase recalled with a laugh.

John Adams won the first contested election for President of the United States in 1796. He narrowly defeated Thomas Jefferson, who became his reluctant vice president for one term. Adams lost the ...

For more 2024 election coverage from the ... Not many vice presidents before the 1930s ran for president — some examples before then include John Adams, Thomas Jefferson and Theodore Roosevelt ...

Given that one candidate falsely calls the 2020 election fraudulent ... his runner-up, John Adams, became his vice president. By stepping aside in 1796, America’s first president established ...

Washington published his farewell address on September 19, 1796. After two terms as president ... a decision mirrored by his successors, from John Adams to Thomas Jefferson to Madison.

In the election of 1796, Federalist John Adams won ... the son of former president John Adams. Furious Jackson supporters thought a developing elite had stolen the election, and after they ...