QUINCY - Abigail Adams, one of the most influential and important women in U.S. history, was honored Saturday with a new statue in Quincy where she and husband President John Adams lived. The ...

Abigail Adams, one of the most influential and important women in the history of the U.S., was honored Saturday with a new statue in the community just south of Boston where she and husband President ...

John Quincy Adams was born in Braintree, Massachusetts, on July 11, 1767, the first son of John and Abigail Adams. John and ...

When John Quincy Adams left the White House after his defeat in the election of 1828, he thought his public life had ended. His wife, Louisa Catherine Adams, welcomed the change because she disliked ...

Long before the Trump Administration's efforts to mute the history of U.S. slavery, Congress banned discussion of the topic.

EXCLUSIVE: Americans have a low opinion of Congress — that’s not news. At just 13%, approval of Congress polls about as well as a colonoscopy and only slightly better than thermonuclear war. But if ...

After John Wood and Willard Keyes settled on the eastern bank of the Mississippi River in the 1820s, they petitioned the Illinois Legislature to create “Adams County”, with their founding village of ...

QUINCY — The sixth president of the United States was celebrated at his final resting place Monday and remembered for his dedication to justice and the republic in honor of his 254th birthday. Elected ...

This post is in partnership with the History News Network, the website that puts the news into historical perspective. The article below was originally published at HNN. What presidents do after they ...

LANDMARKS MAY BE LESS WELL KNOWN. WE BEGIN IN QUINCY, WHERE ADAM STREET GETS ITS START. THIS STREET, FAMOUSLY NAMED FOR JOHN ADAMS BEGINS WITH A NOD TO DIFFERENT PATRIOT -- JOHN HANCOCK. WE ARE ON THE ...

ON the 23d of February, 1848, the extraordinary man whose name forms the title of this article was struck down in the House of Representatives at Washington, while in the discharge of his duty among ...

Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. John Quincy Adams, who like his father bristled with intelligence, narrowly defeated the popular military hero Andrew ...