Monticello will soon offer a guided tour experience to learn about the complicated relationship between Thomas Jefferson and John Adams. Through the story of these two founders, the tour examines ...

Perhaps the clearest examples of distinguished public careers taking a back seat to a mixed legacy as president are those of John and John Quincy Adams ... flair of a Thomas Jefferson, but ...

The Adams family — John, Abigail, and their descendants ... D.C., alongside those of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. The Adams Memorial Commission, established by Congress, plans ...

This journey was, in part, guided by one of America’s earliest champions of liberty – John Adams ... It was Adams who persuaded the Continental Congress to select Thomas Jefferson to draft ...

When Mary Jefferson died in 1804, Abigail wrote Thomas a chilly condolence letter in which she described herself as one “who once took pleasure in subscribing herself your friend.” John Adams ...

After the Philadelphia Convention of 1787 and the adoption of the American Constitution, tariffs lay at the heart of the controversies between Alexander Hamilton and Thomas ... the Jefferson and James ...

"The day never saw a more miserable creature when the sun rose that next morning," the future president said, according to the new doc series 'Thomas Jefferson ... (under John Adams) and the ...

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 ...

President Thomas Jefferson thought it was time to implement a trade embargo against the warring parties of England and France. It was a major contributor to the Panic of 1819, the first major ...

John Adams rose before dawn. It was his last day as president, and he was leaving Washington in defeat. Adams had no intention of staying for the inauguration of Thomas Jefferson, his political ...

Mainly written by Jefferson, the letter includes edits from his initial draft, reflecting the input of Adams and Franklin. In the end, all three Founding Fathers added their name to the sign-off.