John Adams, for what it's worth, reportedly turned down invitation to July 4 events as he still believed it should be ...

It is an occasion for American citizens to deepen their understanding of their independence and the principles of the republic.

Two free dramatizations will bring the revolutionary spirit of the 18th century back to life in Quincy on July 4. How to ...

Though John Adams was old and ill when he died, the curious timing of his demise sparked countless unusual theories.

A July 19 symposium focuses on John Quincy Adams, the namesake of Quincy and Adams County. A desk owned by the nation's sixth ...

John Quincy Adams’s antislavery beliefs stemmed from his parents’ teachings. John and Abigail Adams viewed slavery as a moral evil that contradicted the principles of liberty upon which the ...

His son, John Quincy Adams, was sworn in as president on March 4, 1825. The Adams family holds a unique distinction in American history as the first father and son to both serve as president of ...

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 ...

John and Abigail Adams fully believed that “all men are created equal,” and John Quincy was so dedicated to abolitionism that he died arguing against slavery on the floor of Congress.

American astronomy thrives today largely because of the underpinnings achieved by John Quincy Adams in his far-reaching “light-houses of the skies” campaign.

The John Quincy Adams statue was commissioned through an expansion of the contract originally granted to Eylanbekov over 10 years ago for the three statues on the Hancock Adams Common.