This year, Independence Day coincided with another historic birthday: Quincy’s. It has been 400 years since English colonists ...

A July 19 symposium focuses on John Quincy Adams, the namesake of Quincy and Adams County. A desk owned by the nation's sixth president is part of the Historical Society of Quincy and Adams County ...

Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Auguste Edouart captured John Quincy Adams, the sixth president of the United States, twelve years after Adams had ...

John Adams, for what it's worth, reportedly turned down invitation to July 4 events as he still believed it should be celebrated on July 2, according to The History Channel. He died on July 4, 1926.

When President John Adams died on July 4, 1826, the moment was rife with bizarre coincidences. Not only had the Founding ...

John Quincy Adams sat for Moritz Fürst on May 30 and June 6, 1824; the medalist made a profile drawing on paper. Criticism of the likeness, however, delayed the creation of the medal until the ...

The reading takes place at Adams Farm at Penn's Hill, 141 Franklin St. The Adams Farm at Penn's Hill is home to the John Adams and John Quincy Adams birthplaces.

Thomas G. Donlon, who served only weeks as police commissioner, said in a lawsuit that New York City’s mayor and top ...