While John Adams called for a declaration of independence in the Continental Congress, a down-on-his-luck Englishman named Thomas Paine sounded the clarion call for revolution in January 1776 ...

John Adams was born in the American colonies ... In 1773 Samuel Adams, John's cousin and a revolutionary leader, got his hands on letters written by Massachusetts governor Thomas Hutchinson.

John Adams and John Quincy Adams were public figures who made significant contributions to the founding and expansion of the ...

When Mary Wollstonecraft's book on recent French political events was published in 1794, John Adams already knew first-hand about revolution ... to establish the new American government with ...

Between 1778 and 1788, John ... Revolutionary War. The task reunited him with Benjamin Franklin. Like Adams, John Jay, the third delegate, refused to negotiate until England recognized American ...

John Adams and Thomas Jefferson will always be linked, as Founding Fathers and presidents. They even died on the same day — July 4, 1826. At the Continental Congress and on diplomatic ...

Napoleon would eventually declare himself "Emperor of the French." John Adams had feared just such a chaotic end: A revolution of this sort, he had argued, would lead not to democracy but despotism.

As we commemorate the 250th anniversary of the start of the American Revolution, we should honor and remember John Adams and his family.

Throughout my life, I have learned that we each get but one true choice: what we are willing to give our lives for. Alongside ...

Two-hundred-and-fifty years ago, on April 19, 1775, British troops faced off against colonial militias in the Massachusetts ...