Efforts to honor the president and Massachusetts native with a memorial in Washington have faltered before. This time, ...

The Adams family’s commitment to these principles did not end with John Adams. His son, John Quincy Adams, carried his father’s torch into an era marked by one of our nation’s most painful ...

John Quincy and his father traveled to France in 1778, where John Adams represented the American Continental Congress, and then, in 1783 with Benjamin Franklin and John Jay, negotiated a ...

This Father’s Day, let us honor John Adams as not only one of America’s founding fathers, but as a father who wanted to secure a bright future for his children and for the children of other ...

Yet his eldest son, John Quincy Adams, followed in his father’s footsteps, serving the young republic as a diplomat and a member of Congress, and was part of the American delegation that ...

Chapter members from the John Guild Chapter, National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution in Jackson, attended the 134th Continental Congress of the NSDAR in Washington, D.C., in June.

Enthused in part by Adams’ activities, U.S. Navy Lt. James Gilliss secured funds from Congress in 1842 to expand Washington’s Naval Depot of Charts and Instruments into an observatory.