When President John Adams died on July 4, 1826, the moment was rife with bizarre coincidences. Not only had the Founding ...

This year, Independence Day coincided with another historic birthday: Quincy’s. It has been 400 years since English colonists ...

Two free dramatizations will bring the revolutionary spirit of the 18th century back to life in Quincy on July 4. How to ...

John Adams, for what it's worth, reportedly turned down invitation to July 4 events as he still believed it should be ...

A July 19 symposium focuses on John Quincy Adams, the namesake of Quincy and Adams County. A desk owned by the nation's sixth ...

The John Quincy Adams statue was commissioned through an expansion of the contract originally granted to Eylanbekov over 10 years ago for the three statues on the Hancock Adams Common.

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 ...

His son, John Quincy Adams, was sworn in as president on March 4, 1825. The Adams family holds a unique distinction in American history as the first father and son to both serve as president of ...

John Quincy Adams, 11 Jul 1767 - 23 Feb 1848 Exhibition Label Born Braintree, Massachusetts Following his distinguished political career as an ambassador, senator, secretary of state, and U.S.

John and Abigail Adams fully believed that “all men are created equal,” and John Quincy was so dedicated to abolitionism that he died arguing against slavery on the floor of Congress.