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QUINCY − President John Adams' 288th birthday will be celebrated at noon Monday, Oct. 30, with a wreath-laying ceremony at the United First Parish Church in Quincy Center. Cmdr. Mathew Miller ...
A presidential library for John Adams and his son John Quincy Adams is a step closer to becoming a reality in Quincy, ...
‘ John Quincy Adams: A Man For the Whole People’ By Randall Woods Dutton, 784 pages Randall Woods joins a distinguished group of biographers, including Samuel Flagg Bemis, Fred Kaplan, and Phyllis Lee ...
John Adams’s January 6: The acclaimed new biography of the second president reveals how division, insurrection, and repression threatened the young nation and offers lessons for our time. An ...
John Adams signed the Declaration of Independence, drafted principally by another future president, Thomas Jefferson. Following independence from Great Britain, Adams and Jefferson become ...
With the 1824 election approaching, Secretary of State John Quincy Adams probably thought he was President James Monroe’s likely successor. Both James Madison in 1808, and Monroe in 1816, had ...
To be clear, Randall Woods' ''John Quincy Adams: A Man for the Whole People'' is not a leisurely read designed for the beach or airport. Clocking in at more than 700 pages, Woods' biography of the ...
"Some of the original Madeira stock was shipped to the second generation who lived at Liberty Hall, in anticipation of John Adams' presidency," read the NJ.com article on July 9.