The names honored the incumbent sixth President John Quincy Adams, son of Abigail and John Adams, the second president. John Adams signed the Declaration of Independence, drafted principally by ...

This august cast of memorable heroes and villains nevertheless leaves little room for lesser characters such as John Quincy Adams. Adams’s single term as president, from 1825 to 1829 ...

For some people, becoming president of the United States marks the apex of their ambition. However, it is not always the high point of their careers in public service. Perhaps the clearest ...

The Adams family — John, Abigail, and their descendants, including the nation’s sixth president, John Quincy Adams — embodied the intellectual fortitude and moral courage that defined ...

The Adams Memorial Foundation has taken on the mission of ensuring that John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Abigail Adams, Louisa Catherine Adams, and their descendants are given their rightful place ...

John, Abigail and later John Quincy Adams continuously opposed slavery, Allen said. In an implicit criticism of the New York Times' "1619 Project," which claimed that the Revolutionary War was ...

Adams, accompanied by his sons, John Quincy, age 12 (fellow future president), and Charles, 9, departed from Boston in November to set sail for Europe aboard French frigate Sensible. The ship was ...

A new park honoring John Quincy Adams is being built in his native Quincy on the former site of Acapulco's Family Restaurant and Cantina. The park will feature a bronze statue of Adams ...

When he was young, John Quincy Adams was told by his father, President John Adams, “If you do not rise to the head of your country…it will be owing to your own laziness….” At age 26 ...

There is currently no memorial to John Adams, John Quincy Adams and their family in Washington. Congress authorized the Adams Memorial Commission to fix this oversight. I serve as the chair of the ...

The center plans to host quarterly speaker series events exploring the lives and legacies of the Adams family. QUINCY ‒ On John Adams' 289th birthday, inaugural president of the Adams ...