This journey was, in part, guided by one of America’s earliest champions of liberty – John Adams, a man who shaped not only his own time but laid the foundations for justice that resonate today.

John Adams rose to prominence in 1770, when he defended eight British soldiers who were charged with murder after they fired into a group of Bostonians, killing five and wounding six others.

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 ...

Abigail Adams wrote to John Adams in Philadelphia as the Battle of Bunker Hill continued. June 17, 2025 (Illustration by Sergio García Sánchez and Lola Moral/For The Washington Post) ...