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

When John Adams became the second president of the United ... The Sedition Act made it illegal to “write, print, utter or publish … any false, scandalous and malicious” statements ...

John Adams, in an 1810 letter to Joseph Ward ... In reality, reporters did not rush into print with scandalous accusations of sexual misconduct by public figures. Compared with today’s partisan ...

Ever prescient, John Adams rightly predicted that Benjamin Franklin ... Franklin left school at 10 and began an apprenticeship in his brother's print shop at 12. At 17 he ran away, first to ...

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 ...

Between 1778 and 1788, John Adams served his country as a diplomat in France, the Netherlands, and Great Britain. His independent, unbending temperament was not ideal for diplomacy, and his ...

Abigail Adams gave birth to six children, three daughters and three sons, four of whom would live to adulthood. One of those four, John Quincy, would achieve the office of president. The other ...

In 1788, when John Adams returned from Europe to a hero's welcome, he came home to limitless possibilities. The presidency would belong to George Washignton, of course, but what office would suit ...