The Great American Heroes Act was recently introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives to extend the work of the John Adams Memorial Commission to establish a fitting memorial and to select a ...

American astronomy thrives today largely because of the underpinnings achieved by John Quincy Adams in his far-reaching “light-houses of the skies” campaign. Jonathan L. Stolz is a resident of ...

If John Quincy Adams had retired after his service in the ... deemed him the greatest secretary of state in American history. His victory in the bitter election of 1824 led to a presidency ...

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 ...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- While we celebrate Independence Day on July 4 in memory of the Declaration of Independence, founding father and second President John Adams ... the colonial flag, to take ...