If John Quincy Adams had retired after his service in the administration of President James Monroe, his reputation might differ from what it has become. John Quincy’s principal biographer ...

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 ...

John Quincy Adams had a daily routine of skinny-dipping ... served as First Lady during his presidency. 4. Andrew Jackson was known for his dueling and fought in multiple duels, one resulting ...

John addressed Abigail as “Miss Adorable” in the first known letter sent during ... adams-papers) Jackie Cushman is the chairman of the Adams Memorial Commission and the president of the ...

So numerous were the removals in the city of Washington that the business of the place seems paralyzed.” No, that isn’t an ...

Both Quincy, Massachusetts, and Quincy, Illinois, have unique connections to the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World ... the city's two presidents − John Adams and John ...

John Quincy Adams, in the 1997 film "Amistad." Academy Award-winning actor Sam Rockwell played the 43rd president, George W. Bush, in the 2018 comedy satire movie "Vice." The movie mostly focuses on ...

On March 9, 1841, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled, with one dissent, that the enslaved Africans who seized control of the ...

From the French word “petite,” meaning “small,” comes the English word “petty,” which describes the Trump administration. This is greatness as restored by the midgets of MAGA: ...

Weakening the professional civil service could turn back the clock to an era when government was rife with corruption.