The First Continental Congress convened on on Sept.5, 1774, including delegates from 12 of the 13 colonies and Founding Fathers such as John Adams, Patrick Henry and George Washington.

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

So, exactly 250 years ago today, on Sept. 7, 1774, Rev. Duche led the first prayer in Congress. John Adams, one who was in attendance, stated in a letter to his wife, Abigail, that he "never saw a ...

It was Adams who persuaded the Continental Congress to select Thomas Jefferson to draft the Declaration of Independence, an act that embedded the right to “life, liberty, and the pursuit of ...

John Adams, the bookish and brilliant Founding Father who gave both the American Revolution and constitutional government their intellectual foundations, was chosen by the Continental Congress to ...

But Adams’ letter that I have just quoted from was dated July 3rd, 1776. The day before, July 2 nd, the Continental Congress adopted Richard Henry Lee’s motion for independence.

When Massachusetts delegate James Lovell mailed a map to Abigail Adams, the sealed envelope in Lovell’s handwriting, distressed the wife of John Adams. She feared it contained news that her ...

For their first president, the delegates had a dazzling choice of some of the most competent Americans the nation ever saw: the heroic Washington who had just delivered military victory, the ...

In 1826, in one of history's notable coincidences, former U.S. Presidents John Adams and Thomas Jefferson both died, 50 years to the day after the Declaration of Independence was adopted.