Throughout my life, I have learned that we each get but one true choice: what we are willing to give our lives for. Alongside ...

Lastly the Continental Congress issued a petition, the Declaration of Rights and Grievances, to King George, a portion of which was written by John Adams. Something of a precursor to the ...

John Adams was many things: lawyer, diplomat, member of the Continental Congress, and one of the original signers of the Declaration of Independence. Adams was born in Braintree, Massachusetts, in ...

“I feel myself unequal to this business” confessed John Adams, of the “grand scene ... and carriage to Philadelphia for the First Continental Congress. Before now, few of “the wisest ...

In 1788, when John Adams returned from Europe to a ... over proceedings -- not debate or lecture as he had in the Continental Congress. One of his most notorious missteps as vice president ...

In response, 12 of the 13 colonies sent representatives to a Continental Congress in Philadelphia to draft a united response. John Adams, a Massachusetts delegate, wrote a "Declaration of Rights ...

On July 2, 1776, the Second Continental Congress voted unanimously to declare ... for the great measure of independency is Mr. John Adams of Boston," whom he called the "Atlas of Independence." ...

Adams could barely contain [his criticism]."— Historian Joseph Ellis On May 15, 1776, the delegates to the Continental Congress passed John Adams' resolution "to declare the United Colonies free ...

John Adams also recorded his thoughts in a diary ... John writes his wife from Baltimore, where he is attending the Second Continental Congress. Abigail is in the middle of a troubled pregnancy.

With her husband at the Continental Congress in Philadelphia arguing ... the language of revolution — the very rhetoric of John Adams and his compatriots who were leading the charge against ...

There is currently no memorial to John Adams, John Quincy Adams and their family in Washington. Congress authorized ... He served in the First and Second Continental Congresses – the legislative ...