NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with historian Lindsay Chervinsky about lessons on the American presidency that can be learned from the then fledgling nation's second president, John Adams. News from ...

The acclaimed new biography of the second president ... President John Adams issued a proclamation setting aside May 9, 1798, for “Solemn Humiliation, Fasting and Prayer.” Drawing on a New ...

In 1788, when John Adams ... became the president; the candidate with the second most became vice president. With 69 votes, Washington was elected president unanimously. Adams came in second ...

The names honored the incumbent sixth President John Quincy Adams, son of Abigail and John Adams, the second president. John Adams signed the Declaration of Independence, drafted principally by ...

News from the 1700s - it's the story of John Adams, the second president of the United States. His single term was bitter and divisive. Through it all, he exchanged letters with his wife ...