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 ...

After spending years in storage, Louisville officials unveiled a rare copy of the Declaration of Independence to the public ...

John Quincy Adams was elected sixth President of the United States in 1824 and occupied that office from 1825 to 1829; in 1830 he was elected to the U. S. House of Representatives, and served there ...

QUINCY — A July symposium will focus on the namesake of Quincy and Adams County. The Historical Society of Quincy and Adams County organized a John Quincy Adams Celebration featuring presentations and ...

Throughout my life, I have learned that we each get but one true choice: what we are willing to give our lives for. Alongside Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and countless others, I chose to dedicate ...

QUINCY — John Adams and his son, John Quincy Adams, are not on the presidential pantheon of Mount Rushmore, and many people might struggle to name their most notable achievements. Their remains lie in ...

John Quincy Adams was a political prodigy, the son of the second president of the United States, a noted diplomat and secretary of state, a gifted political writer who served George Washington, a ...

QUINCY ‒ Tour guide Tom Welch has stood many times in the Adams Family crypt at the United First Parish Church and told the sad story of how John Quincy Adams and his wife, Louisa Catherine, lost ...

Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Auguste Edouart captured John Quincy Adams, the sixth president of the United States, twelve years after Adams had ...