The Tariff of Abominations was signed into law by John Quincy Adams in 1828. It was a major issue in that year’s election that swept Jackson and his new party, the Democratic Republicans, into ...

Adams’s single term as president, from 1825 to 1829, stands sandwiched between the eight-year administrations of James Monroe and Andrew Jackson, men of far greater renown. John Quincy Adams was ...

Trump-Biden election won't be the enlightened debate the Founding Fathers intended but it will have to go into overdrive to surpass savagery of 1824 election.

When John Quincy Adams left the presidency, defeated after one term, he was the least popular commander-in-chief since his father. Beaten by Andrew Jackson in 1828, former President Adams thought ...

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

Consequently, while Adams sought re-election in 1828, he did so mostly from stubborn pride, and he actually looked impatiently toward his certain defeat by Andrew Jackson.” ...

Upon inauguration, Adams appointed Clay secretary of state, and Andrew Jackson protested what he called “the corrupt bargain of 1825” between Adams and Clay.

Between the buffoonish antics (Jackson foes like John Quincy Adams and Henry Clay played as cartoon twits) and almost total lack of dramatic fluidity (key events like Jackson's loss of the 1924 ...

John Quincy Adams had seen this day coming for years. His only consolation was that he had helped postpone it till now. The son of the man he considered most responsible for American independence ...

Like his father, he served only one term and was defeated by Andrew Jackson in 1828. After his presidency, John Quincy made an enormous difference to our country as a member of Congress, where he ...

Bob Crawford is part of the folk-rock band the Avett Brothers. He’s also the host of a new podcast about the sixth president.

Luego de ser derrotado por Andrew Jackson en su aspiración a un segundo período presidencial, tuvo una exitosa carrera como representante por Massachusetts. Adams era abogado y ferviente opositor de ...