Throughout my life, I have learned that we each get but one true choice: what we are willing to give our lives for. Alongside ...

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 ...

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 ...

John Adams and Thomas Jefferson will always be ... Historians Joanne Freeman, professor and director of graduate studies in history at Yale University; Carol Berkin, professor of history at ...

In 1788, when John Adams returned from Europe to a hero's welcome, he came home to limitless possibilities. The presidency would belong to George Washignton, of course, but what office would suit ...

John Adams was many things: lawyer, diplomat, member of the Continental Congress, and one of the original signers of the Declaration of Independence. Adams was born in Braintree, Massachusetts, in ...

October 19: John Adams is born in Braintree, Massachusetts, to Deacon John Adams and Susanna Boylston Adams. He is the eldest of three boys. November 11: Abigail Smith, the second of four ...

But history abounds with ironies ... He ignored the words of his fellow revolutionary John Adams, who said that the Revolution would never be complete until the slaves were free.