They precede the exposé by more than eight years, and they come from the pen of none other than Jefferson’s old friend and political rival John Adams. In letters to his sons Charles and John ...

John Adams and Thomas Jefferson will always be linked, as Founding Fathers and presidents. They even died on the same day — July 4, 1826. At the Continental Congress and on diplomatic ...

John Adams was many ... of sixteen states in the Union. When George Washington was unwilling to serve a third term, Adams decided to run yet again for the presidency as the Federalist Party ...

As we commemorate the 250th anniversary of the start of the American Revolution, we should honor and remember John Adams and his family.

A descendant of John Ball, the medieval English preacher who led the first popular rebellion in England, George Washington led ... and both Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton urged him ...

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 ... of Adams and Thomas Jefferson, then ...

The American republic of George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison and James Monroe is not the republic ...

Thomas Jefferson was a contradictory ... bonding deeply with both John and Abigail. In 1789, President George Washington asked Jefferson to be his Secretary of State. Within weeks, the French ...

When John Adams became the second president of the United States in 1797, he inherited from George Washington a new experiment in government and a bit of a mess. The country’s two political ...

John Adams was born on October 30, 1735, in Braintree, Massachusetts. His father, a farmer and deacon, hoped that Adams would enter the clergy, but his Harvard professors thought his propensity ...