This is the second of two podcast episodes recorded at the George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon. Part one was published on Tuesday. What can be said about George Washington that hasn ...

You and I, my dear Friend, have been sent into life, at a time when the greatest lawgivers of antiquity would have wished to ...

Few presidents have been as intelligent and eclectically versed as John Quincy Adams. One of his favorite endeavors was viewing celestial objects and events in space. While European countries ...

Listen to the article read by the author. Editor’s Note: This is another in an occasional series of articles Governing is publishing this year by Clay Jenkinson on some of the less well-known ...

John Adams' disdain for French high society is rooted in his background, leading to a unique interpretation of the man's character. Adams is portrayed as a complex figure in the 2008 HBO miniseries ...

250 years ago today, future president John Adams declared this was “one of the happiest Days of” his life. As he recorded in his journal: This was one of the happiest Days of my Life. In Congress We ...

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 village of ...

QUINCY - Abigail Adams, one of the most influential and important women in U.S. history, was honored Saturday with a new statue in Quincy where she and husband President John Adams lived. The ...

Heated elections, fraught presidential transitions, and strategic maneuvering for lame-duck appointments are nothing new in American politics—even in situations that historians deem to be dramatically ...