John Quincy Adams. Both participated in the most pressing political and social questions of their day − independence from Great Britain and independence of America's enslaved population.

In fact, independence was formally declared on July 2, 1776, a date that John Adams believed would be the most memorable day in the history of America. On July 4, 1776, Congress approved the final ...

John Adams was many things: lawyer, diplomat, member of the Continental Congress, and one of the original signers of the Declaration of Independence. Adams was born in Braintree, Massachusetts, in ...

Later that day, a jubilant crowd toppled ... for the great measure of independency is Mr. John Adams of Boston," whom he called the "Atlas of Independence." But Jefferson would be history's ...

After John Wood and Willard Keyes settled on the eastern bank of the Mississippi River in the 1820s, they petitioned the ...

John Adams remains the most endearing of the New Englanders who won our independence—perhaps as flinty as the rest, yet so irresistibly human, ingenuous, American…an optimist in spite of ...

Our historical remembrances on Independence Day, insofar as we bother with them ... the poet of the early republic’s civic identity, John Adams was its driving force. It was Adams who was ...

It encapsulates why Independence Day is so important ... like the Massachusetts cousins, John and Samuel Adams, and by the propaganda skills of Tom Payne in his sensational pamphlet, Common ...