John and Abigail Adams knew where American history was headed The couple’s letters provide an extraordinary window on the revolt brewing 250 years ago. June 3, 2025 at 5:45 a.m. EDT Today at 5: ...

However, John Quincy Adams, unlike his father, enjoyed a second act in public life. Elected to Congress as a representative from Massachusetts in 1830, he became known as a staunch antislavery ...

Ad Policy John Adams in Barcelona, Spain, 2023. (Mario Wurzburger / Getty Images) Opening night of the Metropolitan Opera’s 2014 production of The Death of Klinghoffer was met by a phalanx of ...

This Father’s Day, let us honor John Adams as a Founding Father and a father who wanted to secure a bright future for his children. by Jackie Gingrich Cushman June 15, 2025, 9:47 AM ...

He and 11-year-old John Quincy Adams happily took up residence in Franklin’s rented villa. They were to fare less well as housemates than as bedmates. Adams soon discovered that the diplomatic ...

John Adams’s version of “Antony and Cleopatra” arrived at the Met on Monday at a time when new and recent pieces are frequently on offer, a shock for an art form in which the standard ...

Can the fraught relationship between Thomas Jefferson and John Adams help heal our own hyper-polarized politics? Monticello is betting yes.

John Adams was the father to six children, four of whom lived to adulthood. John’s commitment to our nation and his family is worthy of honor as we prepare to celebrate our country’s 250th ...