They precede the exposé by more than eight years, and they come from the pen of none other than Jefferson’s old friend and political rival John Adams. In letters to his sons Charles and John ...

John Adams and Thomas Jefferson will always be linked, as Founding Fathers and presidents. They even died on the same day — July 4, 1826. At the Continental Congress and on diplomatic ...

Jefferson President of the United States of America/John Adams is no more”—turns out to be a precious souvenir from the pivotal 1800 American presidential contest. Designed by an anonymous ...

Like the envious John Adams, Jefferson mocked, ignored, or denied the military bravery of Hamilton during the Revolutionary War, bravery in such spectacular contrast to his own ambiguous behavior.

(Of six children, only two daughters remained.) As an antidote to his grief, Jefferson joined John Adams and Benjamin Franklin in Paris in 1784 on a commission to negotiate commercial treaties.

As we commemorate the 250th anniversary of the start of the American Revolution, we should honor and remember John Adams and ...

In the pantheon of New England-born patriots, no two men stood higher than Benjamin Franklin and John Adams. And in the New ...

John Adams was many things: lawyer ... Adams decided to run yet again for the presidency as the Federalist Party nominee—against Thomas Jefferson of the Republican Party. The election of 1796 was the ...

When John Adams became the second president of the ... far it will bear an avowed violation of the Constitution,” wrote Jefferson, who succeeded Adams in 1801. “If this goes down, we shall ...

John Adams and John Quincy Adams were public figures who made significant contributions to the founding and expansion of the ...

With the aid of his clandestine patron Thomas Jefferson, Scottish "scandalmonger" James Callender launched a print campaign against President John Adams that would make the election of 1800 one ...

Although John Adams has been the subject of several recent ... the color of a Benjamin Franklin or the flair of a Thomas Jefferson, but his successes, especially in securing financial support ...