John Adams and Thomas Jefferson will always ... before making amends later in life. Historians Joanne Freeman, professor and director of graduate studies in history at Yale University; Carol ...

John Adams was many things ... signers of the Declaration of Independence. Adams was born in Braintree, Massachusetts, in 1735. He proposed to Abigail Smith in 1762 and they married two years later.

Ever prescient, John Adams rightly predicted that Benjamin Franklin would forever occupy an elevated position in the American imagination. He was, after all, the man who risked life and limb to ...

The turning point in the life ... show, John Adams's part in the drama did increase his public standing, making him in the long run more respected than ever," McCullough wrote. "Years later ...

It led in perfectly to the main event. When John Adams was asked to write a work commemorating the terrorist attacks of 9/11, he says he came to the feeling that no conventional kind of ...