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

John Quincy Adams really wanted to be a poet, what was then called a man of letters. ... He was the secretary of state in the Monroe administration (1817-25).

With the 1824 election approaching, Secretary of State John Quincy Adams probably thought he was President James Monroe’s likely successor. Both James Madison in 1808, and Monroe in 1816, had ...

John Quincy’s principal biographer, Samuel Flagg Bemis of Yale University, deemed him the greatest secretary of state in American history. His victory in the bitter election of 1824 led to a ...

As author Jared Cohen reveals in his new book, "Life After Power," former President John Quincy Adams went on to serve in Congress — and encountered cancel culture as he railed against slavery.

John Quincy Adams's path to the presidency was shaped significantly by his parents. At 11 years of age, ... As secretary of state under President James Monroe, ...

Following his Russian stint, Adams’ study of the heavens took a back seat to his duties as President James Monroe’s secretary of state; his attachment to the stars resurfaced when he entered ...