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 ...

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 ...

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

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...