R APID CITY, S.D. (KOTA) - John Quincy Adams was born in Braintree, Massachusetts, on July 11, 1767, the first son of John and Abigail Adams. John and John Quincy were the first father and son to both ...

On September 30, the George Washington Presidential Library’s Lindsay M. Chervinsky and AEI’s Kevin R. Kosar discussed Dr. Chervinsky’s new book, Making the Presidency: John Adams and the Precedents ...

Randall Woods joins a distinguished group of biographers, including Samuel Flagg Bemis, Fred Kaplan, and Phyllis Lee Levin, who have developed a profound understanding of the pivotal presidency of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Bright hopes for Mr. Jefferson -- The Republican challenge -- Popular federalism -- The candidates of 1796 -- Adams and Hamilton -- Imported and domestic designs for victory -- The states and the ...

Few presidents have been as intelligent and eclectically versed as John Quincy Adams. One of his favorite endeavors was viewing celestial objects and events in space. While European countries ...

When you think of pets in the White House, dogs like Bo or Commander probably come to mind. But for decades, a strange rumor ...

At a score of 175, Harvard grad John Quincy Adams tops the list of presidents ranked by IQ. He studied all around the world, ...

250 years ago today, future president John Adams declared this was “one of the happiest Days of” his life. As he recorded in his journal: This was one of the happiest Days of my Life. In Congress We ...