John Adams was born in the American colonies ... In 1773 Samuel Adams, John's cousin and a revolutionary leader, got his hands on letters written by Massachusetts governor Thomas Hutchinson.

While John Adams called for a declaration of independence ... hand in pulling down than building up." Adams knew the American Revolution had to build up a new government, not merely destroy ...

After John Wood and Willard Keyes settled on the eastern bank of the Mississippi River in the 1820s, they petitioned the ...

“How do you like our new Constitution?” Thomas Jefferson wrote to John Adams in mid-November 1787. Jefferson mostly wanted to ...

As Callista and I sat in the Rotunda listening to President Donald Trump’s Inaugural Address, I realized that it was among ...

John Adams (Paul Giamatti) is a respected lawyer and farmer in Boston. After the Boston Massacre he is sought as a defense counsel for the British sentries involved by their commander, Captain Thomas ...

But if Jefferson was the poet of the early republic’s civic identity, John Adams was its driving ... By and large, the American Revolution was not an innovating upheaval, but a conservative ...

As an American history geek ... If the brilliant, and cantankerous, John Adams was resurrected, and happened upon a copy of The Baltimore Sun, I think he would be surprised, then alarmed, and ...

The historical moment happened on Jan. 14, 1784, when the Continental Congress ratified, or approved, the Treaty of Paris, officially establishing the U.S. as an independent and sovereign nation, ...