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This new biography of Van Buren - the first full-scale portrait ... Offering vivid profiles of the day's leading figures (Andrew Jackson, Henry Clay, John Calhoun, John Quincy Adams, DeWitt Clinton, ...
John Adams, a founder of the United States and its second president, privately expressed doubts that the republic would survive its own design flaws. Yet the Constitution, its blueprint, has proved ...
I have no regrets, only gratitude.” Outgoing Brookhaven Mayor Joe C. Cox made the statement during his final regular board ...
Presents a detailed analysis of the 1828 presidential campaign between southwestern frontiersman Andrew Jackson and New England aristocrat John Quincy Adams that officially established a pattern in ...
QUINCY — Adams County Sheriff’s deputes arrested a Quincy man Sunday following an early morning break-in Saturday at the Chelsea Adult Superstore. Just Before 5 a.m. Saturday, deputies responded to an ...
John Adams. Knoxville News Sentinel. No matter how one season ends, Tennessee baseball coach Tony Vitello is preparing for the next one. He barely had time to squeeze in an appearance at UT’s ...
Adapting author David McCullough’s Pulitzer Prize-winning biography, John Adams continued Hooper’s collaboration with HBO that began with the Emmy-winning 2005 miniseries Elizabeth I, starring ...
A Sidewalk is coming to South Adams Street thanks to the county, but it’s not just about concrete and curbs. Quincy is stepping in to fund over $140,000 that will support the project, and the ...
On June 5, 1819, British mathematician and astronomer John C. Adams was born in in Cornwall. The first to predict the existence of Neptune, he wrote in his journal on July 3, 1841: “Formed a ...
In 2012, scholar John Turner published an award-winning biography of Brigham Young, a mountain of a man in Western Americana. But there remained a bigger fish to pursue, namely Joseph Smith, the ...
ADAMS COUNTY, Ill. — The Adams County Bicentennial Commission recently released an official commemorative coin in honor of the county’s 200th anniversary. These brass-plated coins have an antique ...
The exhibit’s title comes from a June 18, 1775, letter, a replica of which will also be on display, in which Abigail Adams who watched the battle from a nearby hill, described Bunker Hill as a ...