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 ...

John Adams expected great things from his eldest son, John Quincy. "You came into life with advantages which will disgrace you if your success is mediocre. ... And if you do not rise to the head of ...

FARGO, N.D. (Valley News Live) - Let’s look now at the first President who was the son of a President - John Quincy Adams. Prior to becoming the sixth president, at the age of seven, Adams witnessed ...

As our country celebrates Juneteenth, we should recognize those who worked tirelessly from the founding of our nation to end the cruel institution of slavery. John Quincy Adams, an outspoken ...

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 ...

QUINCY — City officials used the 285th birthday of President John Adams Friday as a way to encourage civic participation, unity and civility in the context of the upcoming presidential election. A ...

Carol Berkin is the author of “A Sovereign People: The Crises of the 1790s and the Birth of American Nationalism.” In 1820, Thomas Jefferson wrote that the debate over slavery was a “fire bell in the ...

Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. John Quincy Adams had not argued a case before the U.S. Supreme Court since 1802. Yet in 1840, with the fate of the ...

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 ...

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 ...