An intimate letter from President John Adams to a young bride, known only to one American family for 200 years, sold for $40,000 as part of a "friendship album." ...

An intimate testament to love and to home written and signed by Founding Father John Adams was sold for $40,000 by auction house Raab Collection on Wednesday. The heartfelt letter from the then ...

Abigail Adams (1744-1818), American first lady, wife of President John Adams and mother of President John Quincy Adams. Portrait, Mather Brown, 1785. (Universal History Archive/Universal Images ...

Abigail Adams’ Signature Dessert Was Simply All-American first appeared on Parade on Jun 27, 2025 This story was originally reported by Parade on Jun 27, 2025, where it first appeared. Advertisement ...

On the day before Quincy died in 1767, John and Abigail Adams welcomed their first son. The boy, baptized John Quincy Adams in his great-grandfather's honor, would become the nation's sixth president.

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 ...

After John Wood and Willard Keyes settled on the eastern bank of the Mississippi River in the 1820s, they petitioned the Illinois Legislature to create “Adams County”, with their founding ...

John Quincy Adams really wanted to be a poet, what was then called a man of letters. His parents quickly put the kibosh to that. He fell in love with a young woman named Mary Frazier of ...